Gillingham claimed four points over Easter with a draw at Walsall and win against Accrington Stanley and head to Salford City this Saturday

Manager Gareth Ainsworth is confident of a strong finish this season after an Easter weekend that finally lifted spirits.

The Gills had lost five games in a row before last Friday’s trip to promotion-chasing Walsall, which ended in a 2-2 draw. Ainsworth’s men backed it up with a comfortable 2-0 home win over Accrington Stanley on Monday. They visit Salford on Saturday.

Those points secured the club’s place in League 2 for another season - helping lift some of the gloom around the club.

“It’s been a weird and crazy season,” said the Gills boss.

“I do go back to me going to hospital [for open heart surgery] and things like that. That couldn’t have been great for anyone - staff, players, everything, my family, or me!

“It's a massive thing that happened this season and I think credit to the boys, they kept it together really well.

“I believe we’re going to finish strong. I think we’re going to have a real good say in what happens above us and below us and everything.

“Walsall was crazy. It could have gone either way. It was like basketball in the end and a great 2-2, but [Monday] was the real one where I think I felt back to our best and back to what we do to teams.”

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Ainsworth set his team a target: to beat last season’s points tally of 58. But first he wants to beat the magic 50 - which usually guarantees safety.

He said: “Fifty-point day is always big for me because 50-point day was that day when we stayed up at Wycombe Wanderers way back in my second season there.

“Myself and [assistant Richard