Gillingham 2 Crewe 1: Reaction from Gills boss Neil Harris as goals from Tom Nichols and Aiden O'Brien clinch Priestfield win

Gillingham claimed a sixth win from the last seven home games but manager Neil Harris admitted Tuesday night’s performance was the worst of them all.

The Gills beat Crewe 2-1 - capitalising on a couple of defensive errors to see off the Railwaymen - eventually overcoming a visiting side who put plenty of bodies behind the ball.

Report: Gillingham 2-1 Crewe

“It was a learning curve for us,” said Harris. “A team has come and paid us a huge respect because of our home record, they have sat off and played a back six first half and let us have the football.

“We couldn’t break down the low block, a little frustrating. I chuckled to myself at one stage during the first half because people were getting frustrated and I was getting frustrated myself to be honest, but getting frustrated because it was 0-0 in the first half playing at home? How far have we come as a group? I just say, ‘let’s be patient with the lads’ and at this stage of the season it is just about finding ways to win games.

“I have to be honest, it wasn’t our finest performance here. I would go as far as saying out of the last seven it has been our poorest, in my opinion, a lot of unforced errors.

“I thought Crewe were good as slowing the game down, stop starting it when we were trying to build some momentum, they put in a solid away performance for 55 minutes."

Tom Nichols put the Gills ahead on 57 minutes after a poor defensive clearance to Alex MacDonald and although Crewe hit back with a super strike from Callum Ainley just after the hour mark, Aiden O'Brien won it for Gills, after pressure on centre-back Luke Offord led to another mistake.

Harris said: “We had to rely on them making a couple of errors but we capitalised and scored with two really good