[ 14 Mar 15 ] Bristol City v Gills Match Thread

[Garawa]

Since beating Bristol City away in 2012, we will have faced each other 8 times in just 94 games and only the 3rd time at Ashton Gate!

Bristol City are unbeaten in 7 against the Gills winning 4 of the last 5 ties against us in all competitions.

The Gills managed to score in 10 of the last 11 games against Bristol City and in 17 of the last 19 whilst City scored in 12 out of the last 13

The late 90's saw Bristol City fail to score in 5 successive games against the Gills. The 12 since saw only 3 blank sheets in all, 2 of them for the Gills.

City lost twice in 17 league home games and have won 7 of the last 8. After 2 defeats in 3 home and away, they have won their last 5 since.

Bristol City only failed to score twice at home in the league and have kept the most home clean sheets (9 out of 17 games).

Both the club's top scorers (Aaron Wilbraham for City and Cody McDonald for the Gills) have 16 goals for the season.

Matt Smith has returned to Fulham after scoring 13 goals in 20 appearances, 7 of them coming in 3 matches against the Gills.

Bristol City's 13 home goals conceded (before today) was the fewest in the league and their 70 goals scored is the highest.

Last season Bristol City lost 12 of their opening 29 league games but have only lost 7 of their last 53 since. The Gills have lost 13 this season.

Games involving the Gills have seen 101 goals (4th highest in the league) whilst games involving City have seen 102 (joint second highest).

Before today, Bristol City had been losing at home for 112 minutes, an average of 6.6 minutes per home league match!

3:00
Kick-Off

3:48
Half-time: 0-0

3:55
City had previously led at half time in half their games winning 14 of the 18 and no side had been behind less in the league than their 4.

4:41
Without a shot on target so far for the Gills, they have a goal ruled out for offside against Bradley Dack.

4:48
In 66 matches between the sides there has never been a 0-0.............

4:54
Full-time: 0-0

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

We play Bristol City for what feels like the 1,000th time this Saturday.Bristol City look very likely to win the League,and they will be very tough opponents once again on Saturday.This will be the first time we have played them with Edinburgh as manager,but if we play like we did at Swindon then we have a chance of getting something.

[baronnight]

We appear to be going through a phase where fluency and good football are better in away matches than home, it could be the pitch, the pressure of home fans, the footballing gods, whatever the reason Bristol will have a game on their hands and hopefully a sick feeling in their belly after a 2 - 0 defeat.

[gillsfan1066]

Another point in the bag and I recon if we play them another 10 times this season we will win one. Still next season they will be gone and their little sister Bristol Rovers will be here ,hope this trend with Bristol teams doesn't carry over into the 2015/16 season.
Think I feel sorry for anyone that traveled from Gillingham to the game, seems we were fairly clueless against a team that made us look like we should be in the Conference South, think this game proves we need players to make a serious push for promotion next year.
Still a point is a point, well done the Gills.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

I only saw the result,but it is a fantastic point at the Champions elect.Every Gillingham fan would have taken a point before the game.Not many Teams get a clean sheet at Ashton Gate.We have really improved since our first meeting with City this season,hopefully we can get a result at Chesterfield on Tuesday night now.

[Garawa]

A very welcome result. Another match in which a vastly superior side has been nullified at home by us. If we can do similar next season it will be a stunning season! We never had a shot on target and attacking-wise we were well down on the stats but it sounded like we restricted them to half chances and looked dangerous ourselves. Nelson pulled off a fine stop and I gave man of the match to Egan as it sounded like his last ditch block prevented a certain goal! They had quite a cushion and had one eye on the JPT final next weekend so I get the feeling Tuesday's game will be a harder one.

[fan_of_mulligan]

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/city-v-gills-player-reaction-33417/

Central defender John Egan played a vital role in keeping Bristol City at bay on Saturday.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/city-reaction-33416/

Justin Edinburgh hailed his team’s fighting spirit after the Gills held league leaders Bristol City to a draw.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31892349

Steve Cotterill 's Post Match Press Conference after Saturday's 0-0 draw.