- The Gills edge the wins over Southend by 46 to 36 (30 draws) and have won 4 of the last 5 meetings.
- The Gills are unbeaten against Southend in the last 9 meetings, 6 of them ended in wins. In the away games at Southend, the Gills are unbeaten in 4 (3 wins) and have 1 defeat there in 7 visits.
- Southend's 4 home defeats this season have all come in their last 10 home games but they have also won 4 out of 6 at home.
- Southend were unbeaten in 4 league games and had kept 3 clean sheets in them (conceding just the 1 goal) before losing 4-0 at Plymouth on Friday. It was their 2nd defeat in 11.
- Southend have led for the longest period of time when taking a lead. They have been ahead on average for 48.6 minutes from each of the 21 leads they have managed in games.
- Southend have the joint highest amount of away blank sheets (9) but have only had 3 home games where they failed to score (0-0 v Doncaster, 0-0 Rochdale and 0-3 v Walsall). 2 of those 3 blank sheets have come in their last 3 home games.
15.02 Kick Off [ 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 ]
15.10
GOAL! Southend 1-0 Gillingham: Turner
Southend have now scored first in 13 of their 19 home games this season and are unbeaten when scoring first at home (9 wins).
15.13
GOAL! Southend 2-0 Gillingham: Robinson
15.20
GOAL! Southend 3-0 Gillingham: Kightly
The Gills have not conceded more than 3 goals in a league game this season. Only 1 game has seen more than 3 conceded...the 7-5 home win in the Football League Trophy.
15.27
Connor Ogilvie is taken off and replaced by Conor Wilkinson. Garmston reverts back into defence.
15.41
GOAL! Southend 4-0 Gillingham: McLaughlin
15.46
Disallowed! Tom Eaves has a goal ruled out for offside.
15.50
Red Card! Lee Martin is sent off.
15.52 Half time 4-0
Southend's record when leading at half-time this season and the previous 2 seasons:
17/18: 10 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. 16/17: 14 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. 15/16: 9 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats.
15.58
The last time the Gills were 4-0 down at half-time was back in November 2015. The Gills lost the match 4-1 (Coventry).
16.07
The second half kicks off. Nasseri starts the second half in place of Hessenthaler.
16.11
The Gills make their final change, bringing on Nugent for the injured Luke O'Neill.
16.17
Southend win their 5th corner of the half already.
16.25
Disallowed! Tom Eaves has another goal ruled out for offside.
16.34
Wagstaff survives a sending off! Hecommits a foul, the referee reaches for his pocket but doesn't show a red as he already has a yellow!
16.44
Josh Wright comes on as Southend's final substitution.
16.55 FULL-TIME 4-0
Attendance: 8,466 (1,307)
Position: 15th
Referee: Graham Salisbury
Match Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiST4dBR48
BBC Match Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43536929