[ 11 Feb 23 ] Mansfield Town v GILLS Match Thread

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- The Gills trail Mansfield by 15 wins to 19 and 17 of the meetings have ended level. The previous season the sides met was in 1995/6 season when the Gills won both games without conceding. Mansfield won the reverse fixture in September with Hawkins & Lapslie both starting and the latter scoring.
- The Gills won their last trip to Mansfield 1-0 in March 1996 with John Gayle scoring the winner. This followed 4 successive defeats there (0-4, 1-2, 3-4 and 1-2) at the end of a 15 game winless run which saw 5 draws and 10 defeats since the previous win in December 1967.
- Mansfield's win in their last home game ended a winless run of 2 home draws and a defeat. Their home record of 6 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats saw 4 of the wins and 3 of the draws come in their opening 7 games.
- Since a home 0-0 draw against Newport, Mansfield scored and conceded in all 7 home league games (2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats). The 13 scored and 14 conceded in those games is 8 more than all 13 Gills home league games this season. 45 goals have been scored in Mansfield home games, the most in League 2.
- Mansfield have won the second highest number of corners in League 2 with 169, 58 more than the Gills. Mansfield have conceded the fewest number of corners in the division with 99 meaning they have won 70 more than they gave away (also the best total in the league).
- Mansfield's opponents score from 39.4% of their shots on target against them in the league - the most frequent rate in League 2. The Gills have scored from 21.4% of their league shots on target, the lowest conversion rate in the division.

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

(15.19) A good chance for Mansfield is headed well wide from a great position.

(15.23) A Mansfield shot produces a fine save from Morris.

(15.23) GOAL! Mansfield 1-0 Gillingham: Clarke

(15.36) Penalty! Max Ehmer concedes a foul in the penalty area after a slight brush against the attacker.

(15.37) GOAL! Mansfield 2-0 Gillingham: Akins (pen)

(15.41) Another Mansfield header from a good position goes just wide.

(15.43) Mansfield find space and shoot high and wide in a very good position to test Morris.

(15.47) A Williams cross finds Dieng. The keeper scrambles across his line from his header which goes just wide of the left post.

(15.51) Half time 2-0

(16.05) The second half kicks off.

(16.11) An Akins header is tipped away brilliantly by Morris.

(16.18) Nichols has a ball cleared off the line but the offside flag goes up anyway.

(16.29) Mansfield break through on goal. Against his former club, Lapslie drags back the man and gets a yellow card.

(16.32) Nichols is through on goal. He squares it Lapslie who goes down inside the area but no penalty is given.

(16.33) Dieng with a good cross into the box, Lapslie meets it but his header is brilliantly tipped over by Flinders for a corner.

(16.36) Calls for another Mansfield penalty is waved away.

(16.40) Nichols dinks a ball into the box which is dealt with well. McKenzie fires a shot which is well saved.

(16.43) Nichols fires in a good shot which Flinders has to punch away.

(16.46) A Mansfield counter-attack is brilliantly blocked by Masterson.

(16.56) FULL TIME 2-0

Attendance: 6,937 (631)
Position: 23rd
Referee: Thomas Kirk
Match highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJNbeS2LNgY
BBC Match Report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64520840