Gillingham 1 Notts County 2: League 2 match report from Priestfield Stadium

Gillingham’s miserable run of form continued at Priestfield on Saturday with defeat to Notts County.

The visitors scored twice inside four first-half minutes through Nick Tsaroulla and David McGoldrick to take charge of the League 2 match. Joe Gbode headed home to half that lead with 10 minutes left but the Gills were unable to complete the turnaround

Defeat extended the winless run for the Gills to eight games, losing their last three on home soil.

Gillingham went into the game starting 17th in the table with their early season promotion hopes a distant memory.

Manager John Coleman made two changes to his forward department with Jimmy-Jay Morgan and Elliott Nevitt both back from injury, the returning pair replacing Gbode and Jack Nolan.

The Gills had been through the month of January without registering a goal scored by themselves. Both of Gillingham’s efforts from a winless month came from own-goals.

There was a pre-match announcement that Grimsby Town’s Doug Tharme would be receiving a memento for his efforts after winning the monthly award.

Gillingham had beaten Notts County 1-0 back in September, with Nevitt getting the winner on that occasion.

On paper, Notts County weren’t the kind of team you would be wanting to meet while going through a tough spell. The Magpies have no problems scoring themselves and started the day third in the table.

Despite the standings pre-match and differences in form, the Gills started brightly and Morgan was close to converting a Shad Ogie cross, just missing a touch as he stretched to get to the ball.

Gillingham were unable to make their positive start count and Notts started to threaten with McGoldrick shooting narrowly wide.

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