[ 18 Feb 17 ] Coventry City v GILLS Match Thread

[Garawa]

- The Gills are win-less in 6 away to Coventry after losing the last 3 and drawing the 3 before. City lead the wins 25 to 16 (11 draws).
- Just 3 clean sheets have been kept in the last 11 games between the sides with 2 coming in a 0-0. The other 9 games saw a total of 40 goals scored.
- Coventry were unbeaten at home from their opening 8 league games but have since lost 5 out of 6. Their 1-1 draw on Tuesday ended a run of 5 straight league defeats.
- In the last 2 Gills away games they faced Sheff Utd (4 goals conceded in 11 home games) and Bradford (11 conceded in 22) and scored twice in both of them.
- Coventry won 3 and drew 1 out of 4 league games in October/November (putting them above the Gills in 18th) but have since failed to win in any of their last 15.
- The Gills are looking for their first win in 10 games, Coventry are looking for their first in 16 - their previous 15 saw 12 defeats, 11 goals scored and 31 conceded.

3.02 Kick-Off [ 4 - 3 - 1 - 2 ]
The 27 league goals at the Ricoh Arena this season (scored and conceded) is the joint lowest home total in League 1. 10 team's home or away goal totals individually saw as many or more scored.

3.18
GOAL! Coventry City 1-0 Gillingham: Kwarme Thomas
Both sides have won 4 games and drawn 6 of the league games they scored first in. Coventry lost 2 and the Gills lost 4.

3.22
GOAL! Coventry City 2-0 Gillingham: George Thomas

3.49 Half-time 0-0
Coventry's 3 half-time home leads is the joint fewest but they are unbeaten (2 wins). The Gills have recovered to win 1 and draw 3 of their away league games they were losing.

4.05
The second half kicks off.
Both the Gills and Coventry had conceded 48 league goals before kick off (Gills scored 13 more) but 70.8% (34) of City's 48 were conceded in the second half.

4.16
GOAL! Coventry City 2-1 Gillingham: Ehmer
Max Ehmer joins top scorer Emmanuel-Thomas on 7 league goals for the season. The Gills haven't lost when he has scored (6 wins, 2 draws).

4.30
43.7% (21) of the goals Coventry have conceded have come in the final 20 minutes of league games. They scored 8 over the same period.

4.33
Byrne, Dack and Wright have a triple effort cleared away seconds before a back-pass is almost converted by Donnelly.

4.33
Nelson pulls off 2 good saves to deny Coventry a third.

4.56 FULL-TIME: 2-1

Position: 18th
Attendance: 8,718 (582)
Referee: Michael Salisbury
Goal Highlights: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-gco7jxWW8
BBC Sport Match Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38940187

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

Another game against a side fighting for survival.Coventry look doomed and have no win in 16 games.The trouble is Gills always seem to help Teams end baron runs! The performance on Tuesday was much better than against Port Vale,so we need to take that into this game.If we can get a lead then their heads may drop.We don`t want to be losing,as the gap below is getting smaller.

[CadburyMan]

I see they have just signed the aging Yakubu

[gillsfan1066]

In the past four years he has scored a total of 4 goals so I don't think we need to worry to much about "The Yak", bit like Pennock suiting up and playing at Coventry hoping to add to his tally of 2 goals in 130 or what ever games for Gillingham.

[Garawa]

Good second half. Atrocious first half. Not taking chances or only playing for half a game is costing us severely! With 5 minutes to go there was a bit of game yet, somehow, after the final whistle we find ourselves 1 point off the drop zone after Bury and Shrewsbury below us both won. Port Vale have a game in hand on us so the game in hand we have on everyone else is vital. We HAVE to beat Wimbledon on Tuesday if only to break this winless duck and to get some momentum before we play some very good teams in the next couple of weeks.

[gillsfan1066]

So what does everyone think,Gillingham at home to Dover the first game of next season, then New Years Day at Dover, or maybe Gillingham at Dover the Saturday before Christmas (23rd Dec ) then home to Dover the last day of the season,where a loss could mean that once again Kent only has one team in the top Four Divisions of the FL ??

[Rimshot]

All the excitement of a relegation fight to look forward to. Thanks Mr S.

[Garawa]

I know you have an understandable dislike of Scally but this squad should be performing much better. Jet is on a fortune even though QPR are paying half of his wages and I considered him a very big name at this level. Wagstaff, Knott, Martin and Oshilaja too were signings that impressed me immensely, the season looked very good! We broke the bank and spent the most we ever have done so I really can't see how Scally can be at fault.

We have under-performed under Jed after he constantly changed the sides about. Now, with no money left, we've had to employ stop-gap managers who are trying to find out where best to play a bunch of players incredibly low on confidence. They either play well but fail to take their chances (down to fear and desperation in front of goal I guess) or play appallingly and concede for fun. It needs an over-haul of players and Pennock hasn't even had the opportunity to bring in any players of his own really. We aren't that far off, we clearly aren't going to be able to keep clean sheets so our only hope is to hope that Quigley will be desperate to prove his worth after injury and that he gets the goals that means we score 1 more than the opposition.

[Rimshot]

Thanks for that alternative news. Reality is that we didn't come near to breaking the bank ,that our 'record spending' is derisory and that the whole of Scally's tenure at GFC is a saga of personal enrichment, failed legal cases, dodgy dealings and the removal form the club of any ambition.
Our marketing is appalling, our reputation as low as it's possible to go. While clubs like Burton, with a non league background,and a tiny local population show how it's possible to work as part of the local community, our absentee landlord continues to be about as popular as a train crash.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

An awful result.Two goals conceded in the first half which were poor ones to concede.It sounded like we could have gone in 3 or 4 down.The second half did sound much better as we put a lot of pressure on,and you could hear the locals getting restless after Ehmer pulled one back.The equaliser would not come,but the game was lost in the first half.Coventry had not won in 15 games,so we always help Teams end their bad streak.We now only sit one point from the bottom four.Each game gets bigger,and we need to get the win against Wimbledon on Tuesday night.