Sheffield Wednesday 'too good' for Shrewsbury admits Steve Cotterill
Shrewsbury boss Steve Cotterill admitted Sheffield Wednesday were just ‘too good for us’ as the promotion-chasing Owls produced a clinical performance to leave Montgomery Waters Meadow with a 3-0 win.
A Michael Smith hat trick secured the points for the play-off bound visitors, whom, despite amassing 93 points with a game to play, will have to go into the end-of-season slugfest after wins elsewhere for Plymouth and Ipswich.
For Cotterill and Shrewsbury, there was certainly no shortage of effort in the penultimate home game of the season, and a couple of good spells of pressure and chances, but they just found Wednesday too hot to handle with their superior quality in attack.
“We always knew this would be a difficult game,” said Cotterill.
“There was plenty of effort, which is what we get always, but we have come up against a squad that is full of quality – and that’s it.
“What they have got is a squad, and, when it’s late on in a game, you are thinking ‘I hope he doesn’t want to come on and be a bit lively after we’ve already been going for 70 minutes’.
“They are just a side full of quality, and that is why they are on 90-plus points, which is normally enough to go up automatically.
