w/c 25th October 2025

[Garawa]

Saturday 25th
Match day - GILLS v Salford City (EFL Sky Bet League 2)

Sunday 26th
The Gills have seen their opponents take a lead in 7 consecutive league and cup games and between those and the last run of 6 in January 2025, their opponents led in 13 of the 31 games and the previous 7 leads conceded spanned 19 games. The Gills were last behind in 7 straight games back in January 2023.

Monday 27th
The Gills won a 5th penalty in 13 games in the match against Salford and it was also their 7th in 26 league and cup games. They followed 96 matches where only 5 were won after 3 in 4 games at the end of the 2022/3 season. The Gills had successfully converted all 7 before the Salford one was saved.

Tuesday 28th
The previous 11 home games saw the opposition score 6 goals with only 3 coming at the Rainham End. Salford scored twice in the opening third of the game at the weekend with both goals coming at the Rainham End.

Wednesday 29th
7 of the Gills' 22 goals (31.8%) have been scored in the final 10 minutes of games whilst 4 have been conceded then. The Gills' opponents have scored 4 of the 18 goals (22.2%) in the first 10 minutes of games whilst the Gills have scored just once. The Gills have scored just twice in the first quarter of matches.

Thursday 30th
In the 7 home league games this season, 1,690 visiting supporters attended Priestfield - 4.4% of the total gate. In the 7 away league games, 4,531 Gills fans were in attendance - 12.2% of the total gate.

Friday 31st
The Gills end October winless (for a second consecutive season) in the 5 games played after winning 7 of the 12 games in August and September. They last won more than 2 games in October in 2017 and the 8 seasons since have produced just 10 wins from the 54 games.

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[lidbid46]

That certainly doesn't help! Conceding first must change the game plan, make the manager think about emergency substitutions etc. Gills could do with reversing that trend.