Shrewsbury Town boss backs his hitmen to fire

Lenell John-Lewis has scored Town’s only league goal of the season with Fejiri Okenabirhie, Aaron Amadi-Holloway and Lee Angol yet to get off the mark.

The latter pair are returning to full match fitness while Askey has said Okenabirhie is better suited to the wing or a two-man attack, a system he may divert to later in the season.

And the Shrews boss stressed he was not looking to beef his attacking options with the loan window open until the August 31 deadline.

“We have got good options. They’re good players. If you’ve got good players you hope they’re going to come good and start getting the goals,” said Askey, who takes his winless Town to Luton tomorrow in search of a first three-point haul.

“With Aaron, his hold-up play is excellent. On Saturday he set up Josh (Laurent) for another one he should have scored.

“We know what he’s all about. He’s got all the ability, he just needs a little bit more belief in himself, I think.

“Lee came on the other night and did well for the short period he was in.

“He’s got ability to hold the ball up and he’s quick and I think he’ll get goals.

“We know what Lenny’s all about, the hard work he gives us.”

Askey insists that playerss can work hard to improve on their composure on the training pitch.

Angol played 15 minutes of Tuesday’s draw at Doncaster while Amadi-Holloway remained on the bench as he felt a recurring groin injury in the warm-up. Amadi-Holloway trained yesterday but felt the niggle again, while midfielder Ollie Norburn trained freely after overcoming a dead-leg.

Askey was a striker himself in his playing days with former club Macclesfield.

The Silkmen legend was both the club’s record goalscorer and appearance maker at Moss Rose with 109 goals in 679.

On centre-forward coaching, he added: “Overall it is a difficult thing. A lot of it is down to instinct and composure.

“But the main thing, when people are having a shot, is that you follow in and you don’t switch off. There’s no use doing all of the good work outside the box. When you’re in the box, that’s the time to switch on.

“You can work and improve at anything. Instinct maybe not, but you can improve your technique, you can switch on a little bit more by doing it in training

.”