Gillingham take on promoted side Mansfeld Town in League 2 this Saturday

Gillingham are determined to take their play-off chase down to the wire - but only a win will be good enough this Saturday.

Last weekend’s victory over Barrow kept them in the hunt but midweek results didn’t do them many favours and chances of a top-seven finish remain unlikely.

The Gills face a Mansfield Town side who secured their promotion on Tuesday night with a home win over Accrington and they’ll be in party spirits when Stephen Clemence’s men head to Field Mill.

Gillingham need all sorts of twists to stand a chance of making the play-offs now but will have to focus on their own job this Saturday, which is to beat the Stags.

“We will keep fighting and will go and do our best at Mansfield,” said Clemence.

“It is nice to have a slim chance and we want to try and take it as far as we can. We know it’s out of our hands, though.

“We will keep giving it our best and you never know, funnier things can happen in football where we could win a couple and teams don’t get the results that they need.

“But we have a tough game at Mansfield, a very good footballing team, and they have done ever so well, that will be a hard game and that is what we have to take care of first.”

With the Gills so close to making the play-offs, Clemence admits there are games he’ll look back on and wonder ‘what if?’.

He said: “I have probably felt like that with a couple of results but football does funny things, doesn’t it? Let’s see what happens after next weekend and see where we’re at.

“But you always look back on seasons, whether successful or not, there are probably regrets there and I am sure we have all got them at the moment, that’s myself and all the staff and players, but we still have a slim chance and we’ll keep going.

“The lads have