Shrewsbury Town endured another tough afternoon on the road as they slipped to a convincing defeat at Fleetwood Town.

The Cod Army eased to a 3-1 victory as Ryan Graydon, Lewis McCann and Matty Virtue made Salop pay for errors in defence before Ismeal Kabia got one back late on.

Despite no shortage of endeavour, Shrewsbury are still nervously looking over their shoulders at the relegation zone rather than climbing into mid-table on the back of their good recent form.

Both sides had unchanged starting XIs from their matches the previous weekend against sides at the opposite ends of the table.

Fleetwood held leaders Swindon Town 1-1 at home, while Town were edging Newport County in their bottom-of-the-table encounter.

Taylor Perry and Chuks Aneke did return to the substitutes' bench hav

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