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Gillingham 0 Leicester 1: Reaction from Gills boss Neil Harris after FA Cup defeat

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Gillingham manager Neil Harris felt his side missed an opportunity to pull off a cup shock on Saturday. His team created chances and got into good areas against Leicester City in their FA Cup third round tie but couldn’t make the Premier League team pay.

Kelechi Iheanacho scored the only goal of the game to win the match at Priestfield 1-0. Harris said: “Leicester had some good opportunities to counter attack (once they went 1-0 up) when we chased the game and we opened up but my only disappointment, which I said to the players, is that I thought we had a bit of a missed opportunity to cause an upset. "We didn’t have those moments in the final third, the quality, once we got there.

Whether it was set-plays or open-play, we got there enough, we just didn’t quite have the quality. “We didn’t make it fall for us, that is the anticipation of being on the front-foot and the reading of the game, that is what separates Premier League players and League 2.

It was just disappointing that once we got into areas and had those chances we didn’t anticipate but that is why we are bottom of the Football League.” It wasn’t to be for the Gills but Harris was proud of their efforts.

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