Analysis: Shrewsbury comeback stunning and surprising in equal measure
After the way the first 45 minutes went, Shrewsbury Town needed that response in the second half of their win at the weekend.
You needed to be at the Croud Meadow on Saturday afternoon to believe what happened.
At half-time, with Shrewsbury a goal and a man down, the chances of getting anything from the game looked slim.
Salop had only managed to win five times this season against 11 men - and given the fact they were a man down and had produced a poor first-half performance against Nigel Clough's Mansfield, few could have predicted the 45 minutes that followed.
It truly was a game of two halves, as everything they didn't do in the first period, they did in abundance after the break.
It was the third game in a busy week and Shrewsbury were miles off it in the opening 20 minutes, and it wasn't until an injury to Jamal Blackman, that Town managed to get some control in the game.
Gareth Ainsworth spotted what was going wrong, and as the Town keeper received treatment - Shrewsbury regrouped on the touchline.
The boss moved Josh Feeney into the middle of the park and switched from a back five to a back four.
And that worked. Town finally managed to stop the onslaught of Mansfield attacks.
But just when they thought that they'd recovered, it got immeasurably worse as his side were reduced to 10 men.
From that moment on it felt like there was an inevitability about the result given the way the season has gone for Salop.
