Davis joy as Alex make strides

Steve Davis is delighted Crewe's League One destiny is in their own hands after a 3-1 victory at relegation rivals Shrewsbury.

The Railwaymen made surprisingly light work of sealing a third successive away win which lifted them out of the bottom four. But while Davis cut a relieved figure, disappointed Shrewsbury manager Mike Jackson knows his team have it all to do as they sit five points adrift of safety with three games to play. Crewe forged a 38th-minute lead through Mathias Pogba's header and surged further clear after the break courtesy of fine goals from Uche Ikpeazu and the impressive Anthony Grant. Substitute Tom Bradshaw pulled a stoppage-time goal back for Shrewsbury but this was most certainly Crewe's day. Davis said: "It is a big win with looking at the other results as well. "The good thing is we're in control of our own destiny and we've just got to try and win as many games as we can of the three we've got left. "Before this game it was a four-game season so this was really important we got something, particularly with Shrewsbury being two points behind us." Davis felt his team dealt with such a high pressure game well to boost their chances of staying in League One. "The approach was very good," he added. "We worked on set-plays as we knew that might be a difference in a tight game. "The first two goals came from those situations, which were a real help to us and it helped us control the game a little bit more. "I thought we were brave in our passing. We didn't want it to be a scrappy game, we wanted it to be a football game. "We tried to play football and we got our reward for that."