w/c 6th April 2024

[Garawa]

Saturday 6th
Match day - Bradford City v GILLS (EFL Sky Bet League 2)

Sunday 7th
After 43 league games, the Gills have scored 40 goals. The previous 2 seasons at this stage, 32 and 34 goals had been scored with all 3 seasons being the lowest scorers. The 8 seasons before those saw the Gills' final goal ranking position higher than their final position in 6 of them.

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Monday 8th
The Gills' 43 league games this season had seen 28 clean sheets (14) and blank sheets (14). Only AFC Wimbledon (31) had seen more clean sheets or blank sheets in their league games. 3 of the Gills' games ended 0-0 whilst Wimbledon have had 6 end goalless.

Tuesday 9th
The Gills game with Bradford saw a more even spread of shots (on, off and blocked) across both halves after the previous 11 games saw them manage 100 (74.1%) in the most prolific half but only 35 in the corresponding halves. The last 12 first halves saw 38.7% of the Gills shots but 55.0% on target.

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Wednesday 10th
The Gills have had 18 different league and cup scorers this season, 2 fewer than last season and 2 more than the season before. Of all players to have scored more than 1 goal this season, Macauley Bonne still leads the way as the most frequent scorer with a goal every 335 minutes.

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Thursday 11th
Neil Harris left with an average of 1.73 points per game, enough to reach 79 points if extrapolated across all 46 games. Since 3 points for a win were introduced in 46 game seasons, 79 was the lowest League 2 total for 2nd place and is the average total for 4th place in the division.

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Friday 12th
The Gills blank sheet against Bradford was their 14th of the season and only AFC Wimbledon (15) and Forest Green (18) suffered more. The Gills have the joint 4th best number of clean sheets with only Bradford (15), AFC Wimbledon (16) and Stockport (16) enjoying more.