- The Gills are unbeaten in their last 5 trips to Rochdale. The last 4 all ended as draws with the last win coming in May 2009.
- The 3-0 win earlier in the season took the Gills number of wins over Rochdale to 14, one more than our opponents. The other 16 ended as draws.
- The last 3 matches against Rochdale have seen 3 wins with clean sheets (the reverse fixture 1 of only 2 for the Gills this season) and 3 draws (all ended 1-1).
- Rochdale are win-less in 4 home games conceding 10 goals in the process (including 1 clean sheet) after previously winning 10 home games in a row and conceding just 4 (including 7 clean sheets).
- When Rochdale won at Walsall in January they sat 4th after 14 wins in 18. They are win-less in 10 league games since.
- Rochdale last beat the Gills at home back in March 1996 (2-0). They have won 1 of the last 11 meetings.
- Rochdale have kept clean sheets in 64.3% of their 14 wins (the Gills 18.2%) and suffered blank sheets in 61.5% of their 13 defeats (46.7%).
- Both sides concede the most fouls in League 1. Rochdale concede 12.82 fouls per match whilst the Gills concede 12.79 per match.
3.01 Kick-Off [ 3 - 4 - 1 - 2 ]
3.12
GOAL! Rochdale 1-0 Gillingham: Mendez-Laing
Rochdale have now scored first in 20 of their 36 league matches. They previously won 13 and lost 2 (10 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat at home).
3.19
GOAL! Rochdale 1-1 Gillingham: Parker
Parker scores after seeing his header originally hit the post.
3.31
Henderson (Rochdale) denied by the post and from a great save from Nelson!
3.35
GOAL! Rochdale 2-1 Gillingham: Henderson
3.46
Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) hits the post.
3.49 Half-time: 2-1 (47:50)
Rochdale have won 10 games and lost 1 from the 14 league half time leads but at home have won all 8 of them.
4.05
The second half kicks off.
4.09
GOAL! Rochdale 3-1 Gillingham: Camps
4.19
Red Card! Zesh Rehman receives a second yellow card.
4.42
Greg Cundle comes on for the Gills. His only other appearance for the club was 16 minutes in the 2-0 football league trophy win over West Brom U23s.
4.50
GOAL! Rochdale 4-1 Gillingham: Vincenti
4.55 FULL-TIME 4-1 (97:52)
Position: 18th
Attendance: 2,582 (176)
Referee: Andy Haines
Goal Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnbJb9ABi-E
BBC Sport Match Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39239611