Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence felt there was an edginess to his side on Saturday as they struggled against the strugglers.
The Gills had won their previous three in the league and were up against a side bottom of the table on Saturday. Report: Gillingham 1-1 Forest Green Rovers “I am very disappointed with the result,” said the Gills head coach. “I felt we fell below the standards that we have set recently, standards had been very high but I felt there was a little bit of an edginess to us and we all have to look at ourselves, myself included, the whole group. “I know we can do a lot better than that.” The opening half was a bit of a non-event with neither team looking like scoring.
Clemence said: “I felt that we were edgy from 10-15 minutes, it wasn’t going how we would have liked, we made some adjustments at half-time to try and help the boys, because they blocked us up and it is very difficult when they put a lot of bodies behind the ball, they put everyone behind the ball and it is very difficult to get through. “We gave the boys some ideas on how to beat that block, which did help us and we had moments at the start of the second half.” The Gills enjoyed a good spell before opening the scoring from a corner, headed in by Oli Hawkins, but then allowed the visitors to fight back, scoring an equaliser and then looking the more likely team to claim a win.
It ended 1-1 with the Gills a little fortunate to have taken a point. Clemence said: “When we got one from a set-play you think, right come on, I felt we would go on and get a second now. “To get that sucker punch was disappointing, but we could have them gone on and lost the game which would have really been a kick in the teeth.” Forest Green had a new