Gillingham midfielder Timothee Dieng returns to former club Bradford City this Saturday in League 2

Gillingham are safe from relegation with three games remaining but have plenty of motivation to beat Bradford City this weekend.

Bradford’s former player Timothee Dieng will be heading back to Valley Parade with a Gills side buoyed by a win over the league leaders Leyton Orient and determined to beat another top side.

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While Gillingham have been beating all-comers at Priestfield, they haven’t had so much joy away from home, particularly against the top sides. It’s something the players are keen to rectify before the season is out.

“We want to test ourselves,” said the Frenchman. “Bradford is a big test and our away form hasn’t been good recently, just for ourselves to prove that we can actually go away and win games against top sides.

“We lost at home against Bradford, we want to go and compete with this type of club and this type of team, it is about standards, we want to go 100% until the end.

“Bradford are a good team but we have enough to cause them problems and to beat them.

“Our home form has been tremendous, we have qualities to beat any team and now we have to do it away from home, and that is what we will be looking to do on Saturday.”

Dieng spent two seasons with Bradford between 2016-18. The club got to the Wembley play-off final in his first season, facing Neil Harris’ Millwall side for a chance to win a place in the Championship. It was a 1-0 win for the London side that day.

The following year saw Bradford finish mid-table, Dieng left that summer and the Yorkshire club continued to slip backwards, before relegation into League 2. This is their fourth season in the bottom tier of the EFL.

“I had a great time there, it was amazing,” said the midfielder. “It’s a big club,