Gillingham FC Forum

- The Gills are facing a side whose previous match saw a big win for the 3rd time in 7 matches (Wigan 0-5 ROCHDALE, BRISTOL ROVERS 6-0 Darlington and EXETER 6-1 Colchester).
- Both the Gills and Rochdale have won 16 of the meetings whilst a further 18 have ended level. The last 9 meetings have seen 3 wins, 3 defeats and 3 draws.
- The Gills drew 2-2 at Rochdale last season after 0-3, 0-3 and 1-4 defeats there. Since their last away win in Rochdale in May 2009, they are winless in 8 visits losing 3 of them.
- Rochdale have only won 2 of their last 11 matches. Both were big wins at Plymouth (4-0) and their previous game on Tuesday at Wigan (5-0).
- Rochdale have lost 11 of their last 21 matches in all competitions and their 5th win in that spell saw a 5-0 away win at Wigan on Tuesday. The Gills have also lost 11 of their last 21 league and cup matches but they have won 7 of them.
- In all competitions, Rochdale have won 4 of their last 6 away matches but at home are winless in 8 losing 5 of them. They have won just 1 of their 12 home games this season - a 2-1 victory against Fleetwood.
- Rochdale have conceded the fewest fouls in League 1 (9.6 per game on average) and have also won the fewest fouls in League 1 (10.8 per game on average).
- Rochdale have been ahead in their 8 home league matches for a total of 64 minutes, the shortest amount in the division.

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

13.08
GOAL! Rochdale 0-1 Gillingham: McKenzie

13.11
McKenzie, playing a forward role instead of defensive one, is again through on goal but the keeper just about palms his effort wide for a corner.

13.20
GOAL! Rochdale 0-2 Gillingham: Akinde

13.45
GOAL! Rochdale 0-3 Gillingham: Ogilvie

13.47 Half time 0-3 (47:10)

14.04
The second half kicks off.

14.05
Penalty! John Akinde wins a penalty after 52 seconds of the second half.

14.06
GOAL! Rochdale 0-4 Gillingham: Akinde (pen)

14.41
Robertson blasts a shot at goal which the goalkeeper needs to makes a good save from.

14.47
Dempsey holds up the ball, plays in MacDonald and he has time to place the ball where he wants but misses by a few inches.

14.50
GOAL! Rochdale 1-4 Gillingham: O'Connell

14.52 FULL TIME 1-4 (95:22)

Attendance: 0 (0)
Position: 13th
Referee: Ollie Yates
Match highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1yIfv1a4CM
BBC Match Report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55284020

There you go Gills fan - Gills are 3-0 up with 36% possession. Shows it doesn't mean much.

NO , but the shots on goal does and look what happens when Rochdale decide to become Gillingham with only 3 shots on goal, they found it hard to beat the Gills who scored FOUR. Well done the Gills, I guess Mr.Evans decided to stick his boot up some players backside this past week.

They sounded woeful. Odd really coming off a 5-0 away win. Quite why they are so bad at home this season is a mystery. Lets hope the players now get a good rest and continue on the 29th where they left off today.

I know you right Mr G, I saw the Liverpool game, I can not for the life of me imagine how Palace lost . They did everything right, 35% of the Possession, that's what our boys at GFC have most games. Five shots, hell that's more than we normally have in two games, and THREE on target , WWWWOOOWWW, three on target.
You and Stevie E must still be sitting up at midnight scratching your heads trying to figure out how Palace lost after all wasn't that the ideal l sanitorium, sanarium , or whatever the hell the perfect storm is called in posh English. Hang on the Ghost of Bill Shankly has just appeared before my very eyes, what, what is it you say, Liverpool had more possession, more shots and more shots on target. Ok thank you Sir, thanks for that info............ He has gone,silly old fool what the hell does he knows about the modern game.

Well I didn’t expect that! 0-3 up at H/T away to Rochdale,and then a 4th goal just after we started the second half.They scored a consolation goal in stoppage time,but a very good win.I would have been pleased with a point with our injuries,but we put in a really good performance.Akinde looked like the player we hoped he would be.A first win away to Rochdale since 2009! Let’s hope we can follow it away to Northampton on the 29th.

Just think ,one good season, no one great season, the type of season I honestly thought we would have with Evans in charge and instead of getting excited to be playing Northampton, we could be looking forward to playing say Notts Forest, or Derby, or Watford, even Preston . It seems a long long time ago when I woke up on a park bench in the Far East after a very heavy night of partying to see the back page of an English newspaper with this huge headline GILLINGHAM 5-0 PRESTON , and being out of touch for quiet a while I assumed we had made to the Premier or 1st Division or whatever it was called back in the late 90's, or early 20's, lol.