[ 29 Jan 20 ] GILLS v Shrewsbury Match Thread

[Garawa]

- The Gills have won 19 of the meetings whilst Shrewsbury have won 25. The Gills have managed just 1 win in 14 meetings - a 3-2 away victory. The recent run of matches have finished: D, L, D, D, L, D, W, L, D, D, L, L, L and D.
- The Gills last beat Shrewsbury at Priestfield in September 2010. Since then, the 6 matches resulted in 2 draws and 4 defeats. Those results were 0-1, 1-1, 2-3, 1-1, 1-2 and last season's 0-2.
- The Gills have drawn 6 of their last 9 games whilst Shrewsbury have drawn 5 of their last 7. Shrewsbury's only win in 8 games was an FA Cup win over Bristol City whilst the Gills only defeat in 11 games was an FA Cup loss to West Ham.
- Shrewsbury's league scoring rate of 0.96 goals per game is the second worst in the division behind Bolton. They have scored 2 in both their last 2 games however - away at Fleetwood and home to Liverpool.

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

19.50
Lee's shot is drilled narrowly wide of the post and into the side net when most thought it was in.

20.05
A Shrewsbury ball into the box that could go anywhere ends up headed just over the bar.

20.10
The Shrewsbury keeper attempts to punch an Akinde shot but misses before the follow up is blocked close to the goal line, however .......

20.10
GOAL! Gillingham 1-0 Shrewsbury: O'Keefe

20.12
Akinde goes down inside the box but the referee says no. Akinde gets a second chance and forces the keeper to just about tip the shot over the bar.

20.14
Shrewsbury allow the Gills with 4 opportunities to line up a shot before eventually the move breaks down. Gills pressing hard.

20.22
Jordan Roberts flashes a shot narrowly wide of the post.

20.23
Penalty! Akinde is dragged back inside the box.

20.23
GOAL! Gillingham 2-0 Shrewsbury: Lee (pen)

20.31 Half time 2-0
The Gills were last 2-0 up at the break just before Christmas when they ran out 3-1 winners over MK Dons. The 6 leads that were 2-0 before that ended 3-0, 5-0, 2-0, 4-1, 2-1 and 3-0.

20.46
The second half kicks off.

20.50
With Bonham beaten, Shrewsbury hit the post. The first warning that they came from 2 down at half time on Sunday to draw with Liverpool.

21.10
Gills momentarily down to 9 men. Jones goes down injured and Ogilvie also goes down but gets up. The referee thinks both got treatments and orders them off the pitch as play continues.

21.19
A Tucker stab at goal is cleared off the line.

21.25
Shrewsbury's turn to drill a shot into the side netting when many thought it was in. It wouldn't have counted, free kick given.

21.37 FULL-TIME 2-0

Attendance: 4,212 (208)
Position: 12th
Referee: Geoff Eltringham
Match highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezIWb2VF30
BBC Match Report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51201796

[gillsfan1066]

Great news they held Liverpool to a 2-2 tie in the Cup, now there going to be playing like League champions when we meet them on Wednesday night, marvelous, bloody marvelous.

[Garawa]

The Gills, at half time, have 9 shots to Shrewsbury's 1 (on target 4-0). Lets hope Shrewsbury don't come from two down again like they did on Sunday.

[gillsfan1066]

Three more big points for the Gills, now a nice break for everyone to get healthy and to get excited about getting into that promotion race.
By the time we play again with a bit of luck we will still be in 12th place, and everyone else would have finally played the same number of games as us, and lost, lol, and then it will be like a brand new season of 14 games where we will be looking to dump the one point draws we have been getting and coming away from games with all three points in our back pocket.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

A decent three points! Should have been more by the sounds of it in the first half,but good to carry on the unbeaten run,and go into our mini break with a win.