Gillingham midfielder George Lapslie on League 2 game at Barrow, playing under head coach Stephen Clemence’s management style and improving his scoring record

Gillingham midfielder George Lapslie has warned his team-mates about the threat fellow promotion hopefuls Barrow will pose.

The Gills sit seventh in League 2, six points behind Barrow who sit third going into this weekend’s clash at Holker Street.

Barrow have gone 10 league games unbeaten, have won their last three home matches and haven’t conceded a goal on home soil since early October.

“It’s a very tough game, we have to be on it,” stressed Lapslie. “You can get sucked into thinking they just play long ball but they don’t.

“They make clever runs with their eights and they get themselves down to the byline well and get good numbers in the box when the ball’s coming in.

“It’s not a case of we’ve got to outbattle them as you’ve got to outbattle everyone you play against.

“They’ve got qualities as well so we have to respect them and outwork them, then hopefully we can get the ball down and show what we can do as well.

“They’re a good team and it’s always a tough game. They haven’t lost at home yet so it’s definitely tough to get a result. To get a result we have to be where we were against Charlton on Saturday.”

Gillingham have only won one of their last seven league games on the road.

But Lapslie insisted there are positive signs, particularly in their most recent reverse at Tranmere.

“I don’t think we’ve been playing that bad away from home, people might disagree, I just think the results haven’t gone our way,” explained Lapslie.

“If you look at the Tranmere game, anybody that’s watched it back, we pretty much battered them for the first half if we’re totally honest.

“Somehow, we’ve gone in 1-0 down, maybe we didn’t have enough shots but even when we came out second half I felt it was all us. They just had three