Gillingham 1 Charlton 3: Match reaction from Gills manager Neil Harris

Gillingham manager Neil Harris felt his side should have scored “four or five” past Charlton on Tuesday after a dominant first half performance.

The Gills bounced back from conceding a first minute goal, equalising from Will Wright’s free-kick and creating plenty more chances. A lack of cutting edge meant the teams went into the break level and Charlton scored twice more in the second half.

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“First half was excellent,” said the Gills boss. “Take out the first minute, 53 seconds in, when we got cut open, but the next 44 minutes was outstanding. We should have scored four or five, comfortably.

“I said to the guys afterward, three goals we gave away, and a couple of sloppy moments that could have led to other moments, i.e the penalty (which Glenn Morris saved from Alfie May). Schoolboy defending, we didn’t defend our goal well enough and at the other end we weren’t clinical enough.

“Ultimately, if we want to be a top side this year we have to make sure we are hard to beat one end and defend our goal and are clinical at the other.

“Inbetween, there was so much good stuff, first half excellent, second half Charlton were good, they built confidence with the goals at the start of the second half and we lost our way a little and a little bit of confidence.

“We made changes. They are bringing on under-21/23 players that have played a lot of football and I am bringing on 17 year-olds again and it was a bit of a miss-match but an excellent exercise, that’s the main thing and a lot of people got through good minutes.”

Former Gills transfer target Alfie May started for Charlton, opting to sign for the League 1 side earlier this month. His ball through to Tyreece Campbell led to the early