Earlier today the Spireites travelled down to Shrewsbury for our third League One game, against Shrewsbury Town. We came away with a solid 2-1 win after a great performance.
Second half goals from striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (above), and midfielder Sam Morsy , before a consolation goal from Mat Sadler, sealed a second win in three League One games in front of 344 travelling supporters for town tonight.
Tommy Lee started in goal tonight, with the standard Talbot, Evatt, Hird and Jones defence, with Gardner and O'Shea in the wide midfield positions, newboy Angel Martinez partnering Morsy in the middle, and Novak and Ebanks-Blake up top. After a quiet opening to the game, we slowly started getting into the game around thirty minutes in, when Jay O'Shea had a chance in the box, which he sliced wide to the right. Novak and Gardner also both missed chances before half time. Less than five minutes into the second half, in the 49th minute, Jay O'Shea found Ebanks-Blake, in the box, who put away a left footed finish across the keeper into the bottom left corner. In the 60th minute, Dan Gardner, who regularly comes under criticism, was unlucky to not put the team two goals in front, when his shot from the centre of the box cannoned off the bar. However, that was quickly forgotten, when in the 64th minute new striker Lee Novak played the ball to Sam Morsy, who slotted the ball into the bottom right corner, for his second goal of the season so far. Not bad for a midfielder. After that, Shrewsbury striker Tyrone Barnett missed two chances, and other Shrewsbury players also had chances to score that went to waste. Sam Morsy and Jay O'Shea also missed chances, before Armand Gnanduillet somehow managed to hit the post from inside the six yard box in the 87th minute, three minutes after coming on for winger Dan Gardner. Then out of nothing, in the 88th minute Shrewsbury had a goal back. Mat Sadler picked the ball up thirty odd yards from goal and decided to have a pop...and what a pop it was, with the ball sailing into the net. That caused a cagy end to the game, but the defence was solid and held a tight line to keep the opposition out and seal a good away win.
Overall a brilliant performance from the players. On another night it could have been four or five. Gnanduillet and Gardner both hitting the woodwork, and the players destroying the Shrewsbury team on the break. Definately a good base to build on before playing Rochdale at the proact on Saturday afternoon. Debutant Angel Martinez seemed to fit in really well in midfield, and never looked to have any debut nerves, and Lee Novak also looks to feel at home now, as he was alone up front for over twenty minutes, after Saunders brought on Ariyibi to replace Ebanks-Blake. He provided the assist for Morsy's goal, and could have also had a goal himself, after being put through by Morsy, before being harshly judged offside by the linesman. The defence also seemed to work much better as a unit tonight, and maybe they've shaked those problems that were there on Saturday against Sheff Utd.
Man of the Match: Sam Morsy
Sam Morsy is slowly becoming every fan's favourite player. Him and O'Shea are the only two players that remain from the amazing midfield of the 2014/15 season, and he gives his all every single game. Not to mention he is absolute quality. The young midfielder had another great game tonight, scoring what turned out to be our winning goal, and also bossing the midfield. He prevented Shrewsbury from causing us any real problems, and he started off most of our attacks. He also nearly provided an assist for Lee Novak towards the end of the game, but the forward was judged to be offside. Morsy could well be our key player this season, even with players like Blake and O'Shea in the squad, he always looks head and shoulders above everyone else. If we're to do well this season, Morsy MUST stay with us. He could well be a CFC legend in the making.
League One Table after tonight's games:
(=) 1. Coventry (7GD) (9pts)
(+1) 2. Gillingham (5GD) (7pts)
(+2) 3. Walsall (3GD) (7pts) Most places moved up:
(-2) 4. Rochdale (3GD) (6pts) Fleetwood have moved up 8 places after their
(+3) 5. Chesterfield (1GD) (6pts) 4-3 win at Bury tonight.
(+3) 6. Burton (1GD) (6pts)
(+3) 7. Barnsley (0GD) (6pts)
(+4) 8. Sheff Utd (0GD) (6pts)
(-5) 9. Swindon (3GD) (5pts) Most places moved down:
(-4) 10. Oldham (1GD) (5pts) Swindon have moved down 5 places after
(+8) 11. Fleetwood (0GD) (4pts) their 2-2 draw with Port Vale
(-5) 12. Scunthorpe* (1 GD) (3pts)
(+3) 13. Port Vale (0GD) (3pts)
(-3) 14. Peterborough (-3GD) (3pts)
(-2) 15. Millwall (-4GD) (3pts)
(-1) 16. Doncaster* (0GD) (2pts)
(-3) 17. Bury (-1GD) (2pts)
(-1) 18. Colchester (-1GD) (2pts)
(-1) 19. Shrewsbury (-2GD) (1pt)
(+1) 20. Southend* (-2GD) (1pt)
(+2) 21. Wigan* (-2GD) (1pt)
(-2) 22. Blackpool (-3GD) (1pt)
(-1) 23. Crewe (-3GD) (1pt)
(=) 24. Bradford (-4GD) (1pt)
*Teams that have a game in hand over everyone else
League One top scorers:
- Adam Armstrong-Coventry (5 goals)
- Nathan Byrne-Swindon (3 goals)
- Che Adams-Sheff Utd (2 goals)
- Sylvan Ebanks-Blake-Chesterfield (2 goals)
- Paddy Madden-Scunthorpe (2 goals)
- Abdenasser El Khayati-Burton (2 goals)
- Bradley Dack-Gillingham (2 goals)
- Leon Clarke-Bury (2 goals)
- Sam Mantom-Walsall (2 goals)
- Sam Morsy-Chesterfield (2 goals)
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