{"id":347235,"date":"2026-01-02T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:22:10","slug":"shrewsbury-town-0-3-bristol-rovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347235\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrewsbury Town 0-3 Bristol Rovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Rovers ended a 13-game winless run in emphatic fashion as Fabrizio Cavegn bagged a hat-trick to secure a crucial victory over Shrewsbury at the Croud Meadow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker&#8217;s treble earned Rovers a vital three points and condemned Shrewsbury to a fourth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shrewsbury started brightly and went close in the seventh minute when Isaac England fired just over from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Marquis then missed a gilt-edged chance 14 minutes later, breaking clear but striking the outside of a post with only goalkeeper Luke Southwood to beat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rovers were largely restricted to half-chances before the interval, with efforts from Kamil Conteh and Shaq Forde blocked as the sides went in level at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts began on the front foot after the restart, Marquis denied by Southwood when through on goal, while at the other end, Will Brook produced a smart save to keep out Forde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was Cavegn who broke the deadlock after 63 minutes when he capitalised on a terrible defensive error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made the game safe in the 88th minute before completing his hat-trick in added time, sealing Rovers&#8217; first League Two win since September as frustration boiled over among the home supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report supplied by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers ended a 13-game winless run in emphatic fashion as Fabrizio Cavegn bagged a hat-trick to secure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-347235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}