Crawley (H) - 8 Mar 14

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There have only previously been 5 ties between the sides. Crawley have won 3 (the last 2 meetings ended 3-2) and the Gills have won 2 (1 after extra time).

Despite having played only 6 games for the club, Matt Tubbs is the visitors top scorer this season with 6 goals. He has yet to play for his parent club Bournemouth this season and his previous loan spell (at Rotherham) saw him score once in 21 games.

Matt Tubbs has converted all but 1 of his 7 shots on target. 5 goal men Joe Walsh, Gary Alexander & Billy Clarke have converted 5, 11 & 31 shots on target respectively.

Crawley are unbeaten in their previous 7 league games earning 3 wins and 4 draws. This is their 5th away tie in 7 league games.

Crawley took 9 points from their last 5 away games (2 wins, 3 draws) but only managed 7 points from the 9 away games before (1 win, 4 draws).

Crawley have only managed 1 clean sheet away in the league but 6 at home. They have also only had 3 blank sheets compared with 5 at home.

The visitors last 6 defeats in the league have all been with a blank sheet, conceding 11 goals in the process.

4 of the Gill's 11 league victories this season have been with a clean sheet and only 2 by more than a single goal.

Before today, both sides had had 327 shots at goal in the league this season (Crawley from 5 fewer games) and Town have hit the woodwork twice as much.

Both sides have scored more than twice in a league game 4 times this season with both sides registering a 3-2 win on 3 occasions. The Gills other 3-goal game ended in a 3-0 win, Crawley's a 3-3 draw.

Crawley scored 3 goals in their opening 3 games (1 in the cup) of the season but only twice since (3-2 home v Gillingham, 3-2 away v Leyton Orient).

Former Gill Connor Essam has played 3 times for Crawley this season whilst his former teammate Luke Rooney made 5 sub appearances whilst on loan.

3:00
Kick-Off

3:48
Half-time: 0-0

3:59
Joe Pigott has had 2 shots off target in the game matching his total from 4 previous games for the club.

4:46
GOAL! Gillingham 1-0 Crawley: Lee
The Gills have scored first in 47.1% of league games (wining 62.5% of those). Crawley have scored first in 37.9% (winning 63.6% of those).

4:53
Full-time: 1-0