Shrewsbury Town vs Exeter City betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the League One match on October 17th, 2024

Shrewsbury Town and Exeter City will play on Thursday, October 17th, 2024, at 19:00h (UTC), in a League One game to be held in England, check the Shrewsbury Town vs Exeter City betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Shrewsbury Town vs Exeter City will occur

The game takes place in the small Montgomery Waters Meadow stadium, in the city of Shrewsbury, with a capacity for 9875 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

You can follow the match live with access to all the information to help with your sports betting at Betarena, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Shrewsbury Town vs Exeter City betting tip 2024/2025

Despite the season change, the League One has not changed much regarding goals. Today's average goals in the competition are still similar to what was seen in the tournament's last edition. The current mark is 2.67 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.59 goals per game of the last championship.

Shrewsbury Town last match

The last match ended in a win for the Shrewsbury Town team. On that occasion they met Crawley Town for the League One, and the match ended 3-5. Coach P. Hurst's lined up a 3-4-1-2 formation.

A win for the home team had odds of 3.10, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

The positive result of the team came a lot due to the 2 goals scored by George Lloyd in the match, because of this, Shrewsbury Town won a significant victory for the club's sequence in the competition.

Exeter City last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a victory in the last round. In a dispute valid for League One, Exeter City, who used a 3-4-2-1 formation, faced the Cambridge United team with a final score of 1-0.

The odds of 1.65 before the match made clear the favoritism of the team before the match, a condition that was ratified with the final positive result.

Shrewsbury Town vs Exeter City h2h

The last time these teams battled against each other in League One, Exeter City ranked 16th place while Shrewsbury Town was in 17th place. Exeter City took to the field with a 3-4-2-1 tactic, while Shrewsbury Town deployed in a 4-2-3-1 formation.

The last time these two teams clashed was on 12-03-2024, in a match of the 2023/2024 season of the League One, and the match ended with a 0-3 win for Exeter City.

The performance of the Exeter City team in their five recent games to date has been relatively good, unlike the Shrewsbury Town team.

This football game will be officiated by D. Rock while E. Carney and J. Lehane will assist him from the sideline.

Shrewsbury Town

League One leaderboard now

With 8 points won, Shrewsbury Town is in 21st place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation zone. The team's campaign so far is 2 wins against 7 losses, plus 2 draws.

In the 12th round, the team has the same points compared to Northampton Town who occupies position 20.

Shrewsbury Town analysis

Shrewsbury Town have a negative goal difference, having after 11 rounds conceded 20 goals to opponents and scored 13. An average to improve.

Recent results have shown that Shrewsbury Town is struggling to find the back of the net, with a low number of goals scored and a high number of games where they have failed to score. This may indicate that they need to work on creating better chances and improving their attacking efficiency.

Shrewsbury Town is not a team that imposes its rhythms on the field, it usually has a rather counterattacking game: in fact, during this league we see that it has an average ball possession of 41.55%. In the next match against Exeter City a change of attitude on the field will be needed, Shrewsbury Town will have to try to maintain possession to create goal chances and win.

In comparison to Exeter City 650 attacks and 10 goals, Shrewsbury Town has had 932 attacks and 13 goals.

Juggling a packed schedule, Shrewsbury Town could face challenges in keeping up their performance when playing several games in a short span of time. Despite the odds pointing towards a closely contested game, Shrewsbury Town busy schedule could ultimately impact the outcome against Exeter City.

Signed this season by Shrewsbury Town, John Marquis has been making the fans happy. In the team's most recent duel, against Crawley Town, he once again performed well, scoring 2 goals, a function for which he arrived. So, the forward continues to justify the investment made in him.

Best goalscorer from Shrewsbury Town

In this season, the individual highlight is George Lloyd that has dominated the offensive side. The Attacker has already scored 3 times this season, becoming crucial in the positive results that Shrewsbury Town achieved in several matches.

Exeter City

League One leaderboard now

Exeter City arrives in this game with 16 points, and in 7th place in the League One, having won 5 games in total and lost 3 times, making a total of 1 draw.

Exeter City analysis

We have reached matchday 11 in League One and at the moment Exeter City has made 10 goals and conceded 6.

With 2 wins in the League One, Exeter City is in that wonderful position where they are the favorite.

The average number of shots towards goal for Exeter City is not among the best, with only 3.11 a match. This is a good indicator that the team does not have a very good scoring average, and does not engage the opposing goalkeepers too much.

Josh Magennis' life is not being easy in this beginning of his trajectory for his new club. Hired for this season, the player has not been performing well, a fact that was repeated in Exeter City last game. Against Cambridge United, once again he failed to score goals, accumulating another bad performance.

Best goalscorer from Exeter City

If we want to highlight a player in the team's offensive sector until this competition stage, we have to name Edward Francis. Exeter City owes some of their triumphs to the Midfielder who scored 2 goals in this season.

For bettors some entries may be interesting for this match, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

Exeter City has conceded 4 away goals in 5 away matches. Here the recommended bet will be that Exeter City will have a clean sheet, remember that the last time these teams met the score was 0-3, something to take into consideration.

75-90 minutes into the game is where most goals occur, a good time to bet if one is following the live game.

Taking into consideration that Exeter City scores an average of 1 goal per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 1.8.

Corners Top Betting Tips

The number of corners of both teams when combine gives an average of 5.24 corners per game, something to explore to gain good betting results.

Exeter City is usually quite offensive in their matches, and this has resulted in a high average of corner kicks in the competition. Currently, the team averages 6.67 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Exeter City in this match.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Shrewsbury Town has an average of 2.6 yellow cards per game over the 11 rounds, while Exeter City has an average of 1.8. In other words, these teams together are averaging 4.82 yellow cards per match. Therefore, it might be a good option to bet on the 'Over 4.5 cards' option in this duel.

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