Gillingham to play Bolton Wanderers at Priestfield in League 1

Manager Neil Harris is heading into the weekend in a unique position - with selection problems of a positive kind.

Since Harris took over at Gillingham there haven’t been too many options at his disposal but with Ben Reeves and Mustapha Carayol now back from injury, two young loan strikers eager to get some minutes and a Swedish international goalkeeper not getting games, there is finally competition for places.

Harris said: “Probably for the first time since I have been here I am having team selection (decisions to make).

“We’ve got two young strikers (Charlie Kelman and Tom Dickson-Peters) who we feel can make an impact from the bench and we have Pontus Dahlberg who is a full international for Sweden. He has been really unlucky not to play.

“We feel that is our group now, we have nobody else coming back from injury, let’s keep everyone fit and have options to change in game or prior to the game.”

Carayol was back on the bench for the weekend trip to Lincoln but with only 35 minutes of training on the Friday he wasn’t ready to play many minutes.

The decision was made to keep him back ahead of a full week of training. Next up at Priestfield this Saturday is the visit of Bolton Wanderers. They spent big in January, signing the likes of Gills captain Kyle Dempsey.

They lost 2-0 to MK Dons last weekend but prior to that enjoyed plenty of success as they make a late charge for the play-offs.

Looking ahead, Harris said: “Bolton have done really well. I saw them against Wimbledon and Lincoln, they are a good side, a really good, technical football team, spent heavily in January on transfer fees and also on wages as well.

“It’s another team with a big infrastructure, a big football club at this level and the funds to back it up