Gillingham FC Forum

- MK Dons have won all of the last 3 meetings including their last trip to the Gills (March 2018). It came after the Gills had won 3 consecutive meetings at home.
- MK Dons sit in the relegation zone despite beating Oxford in their last league match last weekend. It was their first league win in 12 and they are unbeaten in 2 after previously losing 5 in a row (and 10 out of 11).
- In all competitions, MK dons started the season with 6 wins from 10 games. They then won 1 and suffered 13 defeats from the next 15 and have most recently remained unbeaten in 3.
- Since beating Blackpool 3-0 away from home, MK Dons then lost 5 in a row in their away league games and drew 1 (scoring just 2 goals).
- MK Dons are 1 of 3 League 1 sides to have had 9 blank sheets so far in the league. They have scored just 7 second half goals in the league whilst the Gills have conceded 7.

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

13.02
Lee has a good chance to quickly open the scoring but his shot is blocked.

13.23
Alfie Jones forces a good save from the Dons' 'keeper.

13.31
GOAL! Gillingham 1-0 MK Dons: Mandron
MK Dons are the only side in League 1 to have lost all their league games after conceding the first goal (6 away from home and 11 in total).

13.33
GOAL! Gillingham 2-0 MK Dons: Hanlan

13.50 Half time 2-0 (49:04)
The Gills had previously led at half time 3 times at home in the league and won all 3. MK Dons had previously been behind at half time 4 times away from home in the league and lost all 4.

14.07
The second half kicks off.

14.10
The Gills have led 2-0 at home at the break twice this season - (Doncaster 3-0 and Bolton 5-0). Away from home, their only 2-0 lead resulted in a 2-2 draw (Tranmere).

14.14
GOAL! Gillingham 2-1 MK Dons: Gilbey

14.18
GOAL! Gillingham 3-1 MK Dons: Ehmer

14.46
The Gills have an opportunity to score a 4th but a mix of leaving it for others and the ball not falling kindly and Dons clear.

14:55 FULL TIME 3-1 (97:35)

Attendance: 4,739
Position: 12th
Referee: Nicholas Kinseley
Match highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrcJA_6AUSE
BBC Match Report: bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50791441

I think the next four games are going to decide what sort of season this is going to be for The Gills. M K Dons, a must win 3 pointer, Ipswich a draw is about the best I think we can hope for, anything else would be amazing, certainly give the team added confidence going into the cup game.
Rochdale have lost four Division 1 games in a row , and I watched them struggle to beat Boston Monday night , another must win game for the Gills and then into Priestfield comes Portsmouth. I just hope the players are concentrating on beating Pompey and not thinking about West Ham . Portsmouth are starting to put it together after a shaky start to the season, I think a point here might be about all we can expect.
So between now and the West Ham game I will be pretty disappointed if we don't get at least 7 points out of a possible 12, it would be great to get 9 or 10 which would put us into the top ten and only a win or two away from that magic number 6 spot.
Go Gills give us some early Christmas cheer this weekend ,if you saw my credit cards you would know I need it bad, lol.

I don't understand the BBC "scrolls" they say it's 2-1 to the Gills but we have only had 29% of the possession compared to MKD's 71% ??? , committed twice as many fouls as MKD but had 7 shots with 4 on target, compared to one shot , , of there's which I am guessing was there goal can a match be this much askew, what are MKD diung just passing the ball around to stop the Gills from getting it and scoring again?

Tbh, actually yes. They spent an awful amount of time passing the ball around the back going nowhere with it. I think they tried to slow the game down after their recent improvements and catch out but it fell apart when get blasted 2 in 2 minutes.

Another good result at home.A good start to the Christmas games,and it puts us in the top half for now.

4739 crowd, gee it's getting bad. In the very unlikely prospect of getting promotion, how would we survive with those sort of figures?

If we get promotion, NOT IF , just when, Automatic on the last day of the season, or at Wembley ? When were playing in the almost big boy division were going to get an average crowd of 7,000 at most home games , going up to 9,000 + against the big boys like Leeds , QPR, WBA, Forest, etc, even the locals like Millwall and Charlton , especially as we will be in the top half of the table doing a Brighton or Bournemouth, 3rd division to 1st....... GO GILLS.