[ 28 Feb 17 ] Swindon Town v GILLS Match Thread

[Garawa]

- Swindon lead the wins 35 to 32 (30 draws) but are win-less against the Gills in 8 meetings. 23 goals were scored in those 8, 16 by the Gills.
- The Gills have won on their last 2 visits to the County ground. They scored 3 in each of them, as many as they scored in their previous 10 trips there.
- The Gills win on Saturday was their first in 12 games ending a run of 6 draws and a loss. Swindon's win on Saturday was their first in 7 games ending a run of 5 losses and a draw.
- The Gills and Swindon both have 9 points from their last 10 league games and both have won 2 of their last 14 in the league.
- The Gills first half goal difference in away league games is the worst in League 1 (-17) but are one of 8 sides to have a positive second half one (+3).
- Swindon have drawn 4 and lost 2 of their last 6 home games scoring just 3 goals in the process. The Gills have drawn 3, lost 3 and scored 7 away.
- Before kick-off, Swindon had been behind in the league for 989 minutes (29.1 minutes per game), the most in the division. The Gills 737 minutes behind is the most in the league away from home.
- Swindon have the lowest shooting accuracy in the league after 31.2% were on target. They managed 117 on target to the Gills 148.

7.45 Kick-Off [ 3 - 4 - 1 - 2 ]

7.55
GOAL! Swindon Town 0-1 Gillingham: McDonald
Swindon have lost all 5 games at home after conceding the opening goal (and 15 out of 19 home and away).

8.15
A vital stop by Nelson and last gasp challenge by Jackson saves a goal.

8:33 Half-time 0-1 (47:28)
The Gills have only been ahead once at half-time in an away league match this season. It ended in defeat (Port Vale: 1-2).
Swindon have lost all 3 home games they were losing at half-time this season and lost 11 of the 13 home and away in the league.

8.48
The second half kicks off.

8.59
GOAL! Swindon Town 1-1 Gillingham: Ince

9.04
GOAL! Swindon Town 2-1 Gillingham: Obika

9.18
GOAL! Swindon Town 3-1 Gillingham: Branco

9.38 FULL-TIME 3-1 (96:46)

Position: 19th
Attendance: 6,133 (273)
Referee: Roger East
Goal Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojQqNf5LjGM
BBC Sport Match Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39035335

[gillsfan1066]

When we do we play Swindon,I thought it was tomorrow ??

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

The games keep on coming thick and fast,and we take on a rival in Swindon tomorrow night.Both of us come into the game off the back of wins.Hopefully Gills can carry on our recent good record at Swindon and leave with something.

[Garawa]

Errrrrrm sorry Gillsfan, am I missing something? The date is there showing as tomorrow?

[gillsfan1066]

No,no no no YES, I had this feeling the game was being played on Wednesday , someone I was talking to in Gillingham said something like it was the first game of March so there was only 2 months left of the season, thats why I enquired or is it inquired ?? .

[Garawa]

Ha ha lol. I might not always get things right but I'm usually correctly fairly quickly if I make a mistake on here. You can trust us to put you right!

I see the Gills have two youth players on the bench yet to start for the Gills - 17 year olds Noel Mbo and Aaron Simpson, the latter of which seems to have usurped Bradley Stevenson in the pecking order who featured earlier in the season. 20 year old Mitchell Dickenson makes up a trio of youth players on the bench and has made 3 appearances for the club. That pretty much leaves only List, Muldoon and Hessenthaler as possible changes. If Hessy doesn't feature again it would seem, for the second time this season, he has dropped out of favour again.

Not sure where Oldaker, Herd or Byrne are. Konchesky isn't being played although still at the club in favour of youth. Sounding a bit tetchy!!

[gillsfan1066]

Wonderful, bloody wonderful. What happened did we decide to defend after we scored. Lets see shots 18-7 in favor of Swindon, Shots on goal 11-3 in the favor of Swindon, corners 10-2 in favor of well you know, but we DID win the fouls contest 10-19, well done Gillingham, now your only 3 points off the red line and playing Bury next who had another win today,...............................Anyone know what the betting line is on our next manager come June ?

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

Gills player worked tonight,but after Cody scored it wasn`t worth listening to! Once we went 1-0 up it sounded like we were battered,and if not for some good saves from Nelson we would have lost more than 3-1.When we were winning the gap below was 8 points,but it is now just the 3 points.It shows how quick you can be brought back to earth after one game.

[lidbid46]

So sadly it doesn't look as if our Saturday win helped at all. I was worried that we won against Southend due to circumstances rather than skill. I'm sure Gary can tell us how many points we have list from winning positions but it has become ridiculous. We seem to have no problem scoring to take the lead but have no idea what to do then! What is wrong with our defenders?

[Garawa]

Sounded like we were battered but in the first half was dealing with them quite well. Yet again it would have been better to have lost to Southend on Saturday and won today as Swindon are now within 3 points of us. At 9pm we went from being in 16th and well clear of the drop (and only 11 points off the play offs) to suddenly dropping to 19th and within a defeat of the drop again.

Only 5 teams are below us in the table. Against those sides we picked up 7 points whilst they picked up 19 against us. Had those points been reversed we would be in 8th, 4 points off the play-offs.