Bristol Rovers (A) - 5th Jan 13

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- David Clarkson and Tom Eaves (from 7 fewer games played) are joint top scorers for Rovers with 7. The remaining 10 scorers share 15 goals with 5 on 2.

- The Gills have conceded 31 more fouls than their hosts but Rovers have suffered 5 more yellow cards from them.

- Bristol Rovers have had 12 league defeats this season, 8 with blanks sheets and 9 blanks sheets in total. The 3 blank sheets for the Gills is the fewest in the league and half the amount as Port Vale.

- The 0-0 home draw with Fleetwood is Rover's only league clean sheet (the Gills have 9). Rover's have conceded 3 or more on 7 occasions, the Gills have only once.

- The opposition have failed to score a first 10 minute goal in a game this season compared with our 4. First goal stands at 20-7. Whelpdale scored the earliest goal and earliest winning goal for the Gills on 3 minutes against Southend on Tuesday.

3:00
1st HALF:

3:04
Whelpdale scored the earliest goal and earliest winning goal for the Gills on 3 minutes against Southend on Tuesday. Has he done it again..?

3:19
Rovers hit the post, the opposition now doing so 11 times compared with our 10.

3:34
The Gills have yet to be behind at half time away in the league this season and have led the last 3 at the break 1-0. In all competitions we have been behind once away at the break compared with 4 times at home.

3:44
Burton scores his 10th of the season. 8 have come away from home.

3:49
The Gills have led 13 games in the league at half time (the best in League 2) beating the next best side Port Vale by 3. The Gills went on to win 12 and draw 1 of those leads compared with Vale's won 8 and drawn 2. Only 10 games have seen the losing side win!

4:05
2nd HALF:

4:06
We are converting 31.9% of all our shots on target so far this season. Today, we converted BOTH the shots on target in the game into goals.

4:13
All bar 3 Gills games have seen players score only one goal during the game. Kedwell has twice scored a brace, Burton once with no-one scoring hat-tricks.

4:24
The halfway point of the League 2 campaign this season saw 13 fewer wins over last season & had 1 more home goal & 3 fewer away goals scored.

4:34
Steven Gregory is on for his Gills debut. 13 players have won their debut game this season. Only Tommy Forecast didn't against Crawley (JPT)

4:55
The Gills win 2-0 for the second time this season, both coming away from home.

FINAL SCORE: 2-0 (Whelpdale, Burton)