[ 15 Dec 20 ] GILLS v Accrington Stanley Match Thread

[Garawa]

- The Gills have met Accrington 14 times and have won half of the meetings and a further 3 were drawn. The Gills are unbeaten in 5 meetings and have won 3 of them.
- Accrington Stanley have not won on their 6 visits to Priestfield and have lost 4 of those visits. They last beat the Gills back in January 2012.
- In games between the Gills and Accrington, the home sides have failed to score in the last 3 meetings and have scored just 2 goals in the last 5 whilst the away sides have scored 4 (2 wins) . These have come after the home sides scored a total of 15 goals in 4 matches whilst the away sides scored 9 (0 wins).
- Accrington's 165 fouls conceded is the fewest in the division and is 76 fewer than the total conceded by the Gills.
- Accrington's 3-4 defeat at Wigan at the weekend ended a sequence of 7 league games unbeaten (including 5 wins) and 8 unbeaten in all competitions (6 wins). Stanley have 9 wins in 15 games and have suffered 5 defeats all season.

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

17.52
Samuel goes down clutching the back of his knee and is stretchered off.

18.14
GOAL! Gillingham 0-1 Accrington Stanley: Bishop

18.15
Bonham pulls off a good save to prevent the visitor's going 2 ahead.

18.19 Half time 0-1

18.37
The second half kicks off.

18.41
A reaction effort at goal from Oliver after the ball unexpectedly deflects through to him trickles past the post.

18.44
O'Connor has a spectacular attempt at goal which goes narrowly wide of the post.

18.54
Oliver takes a shot but scuffs it wide. Seconds later, a ball over the top for Akinde to run on to is hit straight at the keeper and bounces off him. Accrington go on the counter attack.

18.55
GOAL! Gillingham 0-2 Accrington Stanley: Charles

19.26 FULL TIME 0-2

Attendance: 0 (0)
Position: 13th
Referee: Michael Webb
Match highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRk1hqtQQP8
BBC Match Report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55225548

[gillsfan1066]

WOW we lost again and our beloved Manager Mr. Evans says we should not have lost . Er Mr.Evans, Sir ,just out of interest, I don't think the Gills ONE SHOT ON TARGET could have given us a point, because incase you missed it, the other team as in Accrington Stanley scored like twice, as in you know, two times.
UUUMMMM lets see how could we get a point with just one shot on target ? I know, our one shot goes over the Accrington goal line , GGGGOOOOAALLLL, hits a falling defender on the head inside the net, bounces out and lands on the center circle , and one of the Accrington players kicks it in anger due to the Gills scoring , only to see it go in the back of his own net, 2-2 final score, point for the Gills ?
Still we had almost the same amount of time of possession as Stanley, had more shots than them, kick them off the pitch in the number of fouls, and had more corners than they did, so I guess it comes back to the number of shots on target, and now we seem to have a couple of serious injuries to key players, and I thought God was a Gills supporter.

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

Gutted by the defeat.Accrington are doing well of course,but was hoping we would bounce back after the defeat at Doncaster.A poor first half again didn’t help.We had more chances in the second half,but only one on target.Losing Samuel for at least a month is a big blow.I hope we can still pick up points over Christmas,but it will be tough.Rochdale next up,and they’re a Team we don’t often win at when playing up there.