Shrewsbury Town vs AFC Wimbledon. Sky Bet League One.
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Friday 1 March 2019 12:12, UK
Shrewsbury are without midfielder Anthony Grant for the visit of AFC Wimbledon.
Grant picked up a 10th League One booking of the season in the 2-0 win against Doncaster on Tuesday and starts a two-game suspension. But midfield pair David Edwards and Ollie Norburn are back from bans, with the latter expected to replace Grant as Shrewsbury seek to extend their best unbeaten league run of the season to five games.
Romain Vincelot is making progress from a knee injury which has kept him out for nearly a month, but the French veteran is not ready to return just yet.
Kwesi Appiah has boosted bottom-placed AFC Wimbledon by returning to training this week. The seven-goal striker has missed four games since suffering a hamstring injury against Burton on February 9.
Fellow forward James Hanson (groin) stepped up his fitness with a 45-minute appearance for the development squad in midweek and could return to the Dons starting line-up. But Deji Oshilaja (foot) and Dylan Connolly (ankle) remain out, and teenage midfielder Ossama Ashley will miss the rest of the season after sustaining cruciate ligament damage.
This will be the 10th Football League encounter between these two sides, with Shrewsbury winning each of the last four.
AFC Wimbledon are winless in four league visits to Shrewsbury (D1 L3), having scored just once in those games.
Shrewsbury have won just one of their last five league games on home soil (W1 D2 L2), having won four of the five such games prior to this run (D1).
AFC Wimbledon have won back-to-back away league games - they last won three on the bounce away from home in the Football League in October 2016 (run of three).
Following his hat-trick against Rochdale, Joe Pigott will be aiming to score in back-to-back away league games for just the second time for AFC Wimbledon and for the first time since April 2018 when he found the net against Walsall and Wigan.
