Gillingham FC Forum

- The Gills lead the wins over Oxford 19-14 (14 draws) but the visitors have had the better results in recent meetings winning 7 and losing 1 of the last 11.
- After 10 league wins in 15, which took Oxford to 2nd in the league, they are now winless in 3 (0-1, 1-3 and 0-0). They have lost 2 out of 3 on their league travels after going unbeaten in 6 including 6-0 and 4-0 wins at Lincoln and Southend respectively.
- Along with Wycombe, Oxford have the most clean sheets in the league (12) with 1 coming in their last 4. The Gills have 9 with 3 coming in their last 4.
- Oxford have led for the longest period in League 1 - a total of 815 minutes in their 25 league games. It is an average of 45.3 minutes for every lead taken; only Ipswich (45.5) and Sunderland (50.2) had led for longer.
- Oxford win more corners than any other side in League 1, 175 in total and an average of 7.0 per game. The Gills had won 159 (6.4 on average) however, in the last 10 games in all competitions, are averaging 7.8 per game.
- 11 of the last 15 meetings between the Gills have registered either just 1 goal in the match (8) or no goals (there were 3 0-0s). When 3 or more were scored in the match in those 15 games, Oxford were triumphant in all of them (3-0, 2-1 and 3-0).
- In the last 9 meetings, Oxford had scored 13 goals but the Gills have only managed to score 4 goals against Oxford in 13 meetings.
- The Gills last 10 home league results over Oxford: 1-0 (2018/19), 1-1, 0-1, 0-1, 1-0, 0-0, 1-0 (1999/00), 2-3 (1983/4), 0-1 and 2-1 (1981/2). 3 cup games have also been played which have ended 1-2, 1-0 and 1-1 - 22 goals by both sides in 13 games at Priestfield.

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

15.11
Roberts, with an excellent chance to score, hooks his left foot shot wide.

15.18
GOAL! Gillingham 0-1 Oxford: Fosu-Henry
Oxford are 1 of 3 sides this season to have won 11 games after scoring the first goal, the most in the division. They failed to win 3, all away from home, with 2 ending in draws. The Gills are winless when conceding first - 3 draws, 6 defeats.

15.49 Half time 0-1
Oxford have lead at half time in a whopping 48.0% of their league games this season. They are unbeaten when doing so, winning 10 (2 more than the next best side) out of 12 and 3 out of 5 away.

16.06
The second half kicks off.

16.21
Penalty! Brandon Hanlan's trickery wins a penalty after being tripped in the box.

16.21
GOAL! Gillingham 1-1 Oxford: Lee (pen)

16.22
Hanlan's point blank header 3 yards from goal forces the keeper to palm the ball down inches from goal and gather at the second attempt.

16.28
Oxford hit the bar.

16.54 FULL TIME 1-1

Attendance: 5,051 (535)
Position: 14th
Referee: Neil Hair
Match highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bNIx6-9TIo&t=2s
BBC Match Report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51073028

Incredible, who knew that, I bet there was not ONE percent of the fans who were at the West Ham game would know that ? That was probably THE, I say THE, fact of the season so far, keep up the good work Mr G, and lets hope for a 3 pointer this afternoon. Still shaking my head in amazement, how did you know that ?

I guess shared points against another one of the top teams is as good as we should expect, the one thing I have got out of our recent form against Oxford, Ipswich, Sunderland, Portsmouth and the likes, is that when we grab that that 5th or 6th spot for a play off place we can hold our own against anyone.
Another point for the good guys, a tough spell in our schedule is now kind of over for a while, and I expect if Evans and the boys are serious about getting into the top 6 then the next two games against Rochdale and Shrewsbury who don't have a win between them for donkeys years should bring us 6 points , a point against Burton will be fine, then Blackpool who are falling to pieces not a win in 5 games, a home game against Donny must be worth a point or more and then THREE BIG points against Southend who are already dead and buried,
By this time next month I can see us sitting with between 46 and 50 points, and that will put us up there in the top 8 looking at a play off place square in the eyes.
Go Gills and GO EVANS, keep the pedal to the metal and get us promoted this year, Scally will let the moths out of his wife's purse next time were in the Championship,he won't want to be back here in the 3rd division again, after rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Chairmen of the almost big boys league.

A good point to continue the unbeaten run.We did sound off it in the first half,but more ourselves in the second half.A good penalty from Lee to grab the equaliser.8 unbeaten in the league now,it’s good that we keep going until the end.