Gillingham FC Forum

- The Gills have faced Fleetwood on 7 occasions and won only once (2 draws). Only Fleetwood have kept clean sheets in any of the meetings (2).
- Fleetwood have lost only 3 of their last 27 league games (the joint fewest with Sheff Utd) and only 1 in 13 away after previously losing 6 out of 8 on the road.
- Fleetwood have won 8 of their last 13 league games and on the road have won 8 of their last 11 after needing to play 42 away games to win the previous 8.
- Fleetwood's 19 clean sheets is the most in the division. Their 2 away blank sheets is also the best total in the division.
- The Gills league games this season had witnessed 133 goals (3.0 per game), the most of any League 1 side this season.
- Fleetwood have only failed to score 6 times (the second best total in League 1) but 4 of those blank sheets have come in their last 7 games.
- 2 of Fleetwood's home defeats saw them concede 4 goals. They have only conceded 5 goal in their last 11 away games and only once scored more than 2 goals in an away game all season.
- In the 7 games, both sides have scored 11 goals by 10 different scorers. Only Rory Donnelly and Jamille Matt have scored more than 1.

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

3.39
GOAL! Gillingham 1-0 Fleetwood Town: Cairns OG
Zesh Rehman's effort hits the right post and bounces in off the goal keeper.

3.42
Fleetwood concede first the fewest amount of times of any side in League 1 (25.0%). They are win-less away when doing so (3 draws, 3 defeats)

3.48 Half-time 1-0 (46:00)
The Gills have led at half time at home 9 times, (won 2 and lost 2). Fleetwood lost 2 and drew 2 of the away games they were losing.

4.05
The second half kicks off.

4.14
GOAL! Gillingham 1-1 Fleetwood Town: Hunter

4.22
Fleetwood hit the post.

4.24
GOAL! Gillingham 2-1 Fleetwood Town: Donnelly

4.27
Jake Hessenthaler hits the post.

4.39
GOAL! Gillingham 2-2 Fleetwood Town: Ball

4.51
GOAL! Gillingham 2-3 Fleetwood Town: Dempsey

4.55 FULL-TIME 2-3 (96:15)

Position: 20th
Attendance: 8,760 (172)
Referee: Chris Sarginson
Goal Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETy08v0saPY
BBC Match Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39605633

The last home game of the season tomorrow.Time flies,but I think we`re all pleased that the season is close to finishing after it being a poor season.We still have a job to do to stay in League one.I think a point should do it,but we need to go for the win.Fleetwood have had an excellent season under Uwe Rosler,they can still get automatic promotion so will probably go out all attack.Hopefully we can get the result we need.

I really would love to be able to share your optimism, but I have this feeling by tomorrow evening were going to still be sitting on 49 points, and the only real winner I can see tomorrow is going to be Coventry and they don't matter, apart from that I can see Bury picking up a point , but I can't see Swindon, P V or Shrewsbury getting any points so it in my mind will come down to the Cobblers next weekend. I hope I am wrong about the Gills but I see 3 or 4 -1 written all over this game, and not for the good guys either.

Well I was right ,Fleetwood scored four ,lol. How did this happen, we had the point, I won't say point's just a point in the bag and once again we blew it. The Port Vale game on Tuesday night cancelled because of a shortage of players, both P V and Walsall played today so why cancel Tuesdays game , thats Bull Corn.

Tuesday nights game cancelled????? A Walsall win and we are safe (maybe even a draw). At 2-1 up we 52 points, more than the 50 our fans said would be safe, and Port Vale were drawing with Shrewsbury and Bury winning. Still perfectly capable of getting relegated in the next game. I said so! Why everyone thought the draw was sufficient. As it was, Port Vale conceded and lost which did us a massive favour but it's out of our hands.

How is it out of our hands , a win at Northampton who have not won in SEVEN games would give us 52 points, If Vale beat Walsall and beat Fleetwood @ Fleetwood (yeah right) they would still only have 51 points, so it is very much in our hands, and if Bury lose they end up with 50 and if Shrewsbury loses to they end up with 51 points, a win for Gillingham at Northampton is on, Glasgow is doing the same there as he did here ,started off with a good show ,and is now F'ing it up, Gillingham are going to go into N'thmptn and come away with a 2-1 win, you wait and see. It says the P Vale game is postponed on Tuesday due to insufficient players ?

Just watched the Gills highlites on Sky TV, why is Holy still playing in goal for the Gills, their first goal was entirely his fault, jjezz I could have got that ball, what the hell , where is Nelson, is Scally and his management team trying to lose ?

I was still in the mind-frame that Port Vale got a point so I was so p***ed off with the result I wasn't think straight. That said, I FULLY expect us to lose at Northampton and therefore it kind of is out of our hands. Need Walsall to do it for us instead Tuesday as we sure aren't capable of doing it ourselves!

Very much like we have seen lots of times this season.Get a lead and sit back on it by being too keep,then get punished.To take the lead twice and lose at home is poor,and we should be safe by now.The defending was so poor again,and Holy and the defence were so shaky.We`re so lucky there are worse Teams than us.Hopefully Walsall can win on Tuesday so we can just end this poor season by staying in the league.

Fleetwood are not going to lose to Port Vale, and Gillingham are going to beat Northampton 2-1, Glasgow has lead that team to 7 games in a row without a win, no way Gillingham lose to them, there players don't give to s**ts about him being fired by Gillingham, he has lost that locker room already.

With the WALSALL v PORT VALE game potentially being so critical to our season, I will post a bonus match facts post for the game below.

- Port Vale have lost their last 3 matches against Wasall, conceding 8 goals and scoring none.
- Port Vale have failed to score in any of their last 5 matches and in 6 of their last 7, conceding 11 goals and scoring just 2.
- Port Vale have drawn 4 and lost 11 of their last 15 away league matches. They've won only once this season (1 away win in 22 games).
- Port Vale have the fewest shots on target (144) and the fewest off target (213) and their 12 away goals is the lowest in League 1 also.
- In Port Vale's 44 league matches they have only managed 11 first half goals, the least in the division. They have scored 33 in the second.
- Walsall have only won once in 8 league games but, at home, their last 9 have seen 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
- Walsall's games see them give away fewer fouls (443) than any other League 1 side but also win the fewest (398).
- Walsall have conceded 2 goals in their last 6 home matches. 4 of their 6 home clean sheets this season have come in those last 6 games.

7:44 Kick-Off

8.09
Morris (Walsall) strikes the crossbar.

8.31 Half-time 0-0
Combined both sides have only led at HT 18 times in League 1, less than Scunthorpe, Rochdale, Fleetwood and Bolton.

8.47
The second half kicks off.

9.27
GOAL! Walsall 0-1 Port Vale: Eagles
Port Vale score their first league goal in 556 minutes of football.

9.35 FULL-TIME 0-1
In 2010 the Gills sat 19th with a game to go, 2 points off the drop. They were relegated. This time we sit 1 point off in 20th with 49.