[ 23 Sep 17 ] Rochdale v GILLS Match Thread

[Garawa]

- Both the Gills and Rochdale have won 14 each of the 44 meetings whilst the other 16 ended as draws.
- Both the Gills and Rochdale have only won one league match in their last 10 games. Rochdale have lost 4 and the Gills lost 5.
- Rochdale have won once at home in the league in 5 games but also lost only once in 13 and only twice in 25 at home in the league.
- Rochdale won this fixture 4-1 last season. Before that, Gills had won 3 and drawn 3 of the previous 6.
- Before today's game, Rochdale had led for the shortest time in League 1, just 28 minutes in 8 games. the Gills had led for 38.
- Rochdale were top home scorers in 16/17 with 48 (10 out 16 saw 3+ goals scored). They have scored 6 goals the 6 home games since.

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

15.25
GOAL! Rochdale 1-0 Gillingham: Henderson
Rochdale are the only side not to have won after scoring first this season. The 3 occasions saw them draw 1 and lose 2.

15.28
GOAL! Rochdale 2-0 Gillingham: Rafferty
The Gills have now scored 1 and conceded 7 goals in the first half of league games and scored 5 and conceded 6 in the second.

15.46
Red Card! Tom Eaves (already booked and facing a 1 match match ban for 5 yellows) receives a straight red.

15.50 Half-time 2-0 (48:58)
The Gills, Rochdale and Plymouth were the only League 1 sides before today still to have led at half-time in a league match this season.

16.06
The second half kicks off.

16.46
Penalty! Zakuani fouls Henderson in the area.

16.47
Tomas Holy saves the penalty!

16.51
GOAL! Rochdale 3-0 Gillingham: Done

16.54 FULL-TIME 3-0 (97:03)

Attendance: 2,793 (159)
Position: 22nd
Referee: Eddie Ilderton
Goal Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upYznH0gyoY
BBC Match Report: http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41289906

[Kent_UckyFriedGills]

Two games unbeaten,and we need to build on last weeks win against Charlton.It will be tough as Rochdale do score plenty and they did in mid-week too.A point would be a good result.

[baronnight]

With Rochdale only losing 2 of their last 25 home games a win sounds like a tough ask for a team that has started so slowly, still a feint heart never won fair maiden, up and at them.

[Garawa]

Just to appease Chicago, it's half-time and we've had no shots on target to their 6. They've had 13 shots to our 4 and they've committed just 1 foul to our 11 of which one included a red card. And yes, it sounds like a side struggling at the bottom are all over us. Worrying times.

[gillsfan1066]

Means nothing as you said before, STAT'S MEAN NOTHING I am sure at this very second Ady is giving them a team talk and they will come roaring back.
OOPPSS ,not that it means anything but a huge crown of 2,800 saw Gillingham FC make complete fools of themselves ,loosing 3-0 , and trust me the stats to this game MEANT NUFFIN.
Hell we had one shot on target compared with Rochdales 9, what a bunch of loosers Rochdale are ,all they could do was score one goal with each THREE shots, poor average 3 shots on goal just to score once ,jeezzz thats awful. I am amazed our one shot on goal didn't score at least 4 goals and we came out winners 3-4, can't understand it ??

[CadburyMan]

Awful; truly awful.

What in creation's name was Eaves thinking of or maybe he was not capable of thinking - he totally let the club down and made what was a difficult task impossible.

On the plus side the weather was half decent

[Rimshot]

Poor sides beating us at a canter, Howler in goal back to his worst.

[gillsfan1066]

The players are learning fast, get sent off , spend five minutes getting bollocked by the Pillock,watch the 2nd half from the stands,with a cup of tea and a sticky bun, I think it's Holy's turn next week.

[Garawa]

What is this now? 11 games and 3 straight red cards? All 3 pretty ludicrous "what were they thinking" moments - AP certainly won't be telling them to do that so what on earth is happening to make players do such rash things and not learn from before. Most fouls in the league and 3 reds - I think the FA will be calling Monday morning.

[Rimshot]

Yes, I think this is what sports journos like to call a 'club in crisis' but in truth it is just the natural outcome of policy that sacrifices everything to the Chairmane interests and whims.