w/c 7th January 2023

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Saturday 7th
Match day - GILLS v Leicester City (FA Cup, Round 3)

Sunday 8th
The Gills losing streak extends to 5 games and the most successive league and cup defeats before that this season was 2 before 0-0 home league draws and a 1-1 away cup draw ended them. The 5 defeats are the most since losing 6 in a row in back December 2021.

Monday 9th
Excluding Football League Trophy academy sides, the Leicester City game was the 3rd match this season against first-team Premier League opposition. In the 5 seasons before this, they had only played top-flight opposition on 2 occasions with none in the previous 2.

Tuesday 10th
The other 2 top-flight first team games this season against Brentford and Wolves saw the Gills manage 1 shot on target in both. Since then, they managed 3 successive League 2 games in which they managed 2 but took 3 against Leicester. Mandron, Reeves, Williams, Jefferies & Adelakun took the 5 shots.

Wednesday 11th
The 6 shots on target managed by Leicester meant that Jake Turner overtook Glenn Morris' save percentage. Morris played 19 games and faced 64 shots, saving 68.8% of them. Turner faced 76 in his 17 games and saved 71.1% of them.

Thursday 12th
The Gills have conceded the first goal of the game 22 times in the 35 matches. They have scored 20 goals in total this season with 8 of them being the first goal of the match. 5 of those 8 games have been won and 3 have been drawn.

Friday 13th
The Gills had 30% possession at home to Premier League Leicester City and their only lower percentage (22%) at home this season came against Swindon Town. Only 3 of the 16 home games have seen the Gills have the most possession, averaging 44.8% of the ball.