Matt Taylor wants Shrewsbury to see their quality after Burton win
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2023 by PA
Shrewsbury manager Matt Taylor hopes his players saw how good they can be as Town claimed a 2-1 victory over winless Burton.
Tom Bayliss fired Shrewsbury into the lead in the third minute, tapping home at the back post from a Dan Udoh cross.
The home side then doubled their lead just before half-time with Chey Dunkley heading in from a Jordan Shipley corner.
The Brewers found the back of the net for the first time this season when Mason Bennett pulled one back in the 97th minute but it proved to be a consolation.
Taylor said: “It helps when you score a goal as early as we did. I asked the players for a reaction from Saturday because we weren’t good enough.
“We were braver when we needed to be. Today was more like us and the performance from the first game of the season.
“The only disappointing thing was we conceded because the performance up to then deserved a clean sheet.
“But make no bones about how important that result is. I said to the players at half-time we had achieved nothing yet.
“I spoke to them about understanding they had to do everything they could to win the game, and they did that.
“Genuinely, I think this is huge for us as a group, for the players to understand how good they can be.
“If you had offered me two home wins in the first three matches of the season, I would have taken it.”
The search continues for Burton’s first points of the campaign after their 3-0 thumping against Derby and opening day 2-0 loss away to Blackpool.
Boss Dino Maamria said: “Yes, it is disappointing. It’s been a tough tough start, not just with the fixture list but also the amount of injuries we have had.
“We were forced to change shape and start with a different team than what we would have hoped for, but overall we conceded too early on again and then we conceded late into the half which give ourselves a mountain to climb.
“In between the goals, we played pretty well tonight, and I thought we had created a lot of chances.
“It was frustrating not to get that first goal, especially the first half, because we had some big moments.
“I think if we scored first-half and gone in at 1-1, it would have been a fair reflection on the half.
“But to go in when they scored from a corner in the last kick of the half, it was a real kick in the teeth.
“But I thought we responded well overall in the second and got the goal we deserved.”
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