Gillingham 0 Exeter City 0 Carabao Cup match report - Gills win 6-5 on penalties

David Tutonda scored the winning penalty as Gillingham reached the Carabao Cup third round.

After 10 perfect penalties, Gills keeper Jake Turner turned Exeter's sixth kick, taken by Josh Key, over the bar.

That gave Tutonda the chance to win it and he made no mistake with an ice-cool finish.

The tie went straight to penalties after a goalless 90 minutes, with League 2 Gills edging their League 1 opponents, both sides having made six changes for the match.

There was plenty of effort but not too much quality in a goalless first half that saw the sides cancel each other out.

For the Gills, Tutonda’s break down the left took him into the box, he drove the ball across the face of goal but there was nobody to tuck it away.

That summed it up for the Gills, a case of almost but not quite, with the hosts’ best chance of the half seeing Stuart O’Keefe head over from close range after Elkan Baggott nodded Alex MacDonald’s deep corner back across goal.

Olly Lee’s strike from distance, after Cheye Alexander played the ball infield, was well-held by Scott Brown, while Lewis Walker turned the ball from Will Wright’s cross after a nice spell of possession in the Grecians half.

Exeter had a couple of decent chances in the first half.

Early on, Tutonda made a key interception from Jake Caprice’s cross after a swift counter down the left, a break referee Carl Brook inadvertently had a hand in, when Matt Jay’s initial clearance hit his back and gave Exeter a second chance to get away.

Captain Jay later stabbed wide when the ball dropped kindly in the box, and Javani Brown dinked over the top after Turner came out of his goal to deny Caprice.

A fierce strike from Key was beaten away by Turner early in the second half, an awkward one to deal