Preview: Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence looks ahead to League 2 match at Nigel Clough’s newly promoted Mansfield Town

Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence isn’t expecting an easy ride at Mansfield - even though their weekend opponents have already sealed promotion.

The Stags have clinched their place in League 1 next season after a midweek win and will be in a party mood when the Gills - still with a mathematical chance of reaching the play-offs - visit Field Mill for the penultimate game of the season.

Mansfield can afford to relax in their last two games, with both themselves and Wrexham claiming either second or third place behind newly crowned champions Stockport County.

Clemence said: “We know it will be difficult, I am sure it will be a bit of a party atmosphere there - but we have to try and take the game to them and quieten that atmosphere down.

“We have shown on a number of occasions that we can take anybody on and I have always said that about this group. Where we’ve struggled is with that consistency and that has been because we haven’t scored enough goals.

“If we had scored another 15-20 this season I am sure we would be right where we want to be right now but for one reason or another that hasn’t happened for us but we keep trying, we have two games to go and we want to finish as strongly as we can.”

The Gills are hoping for numerous results to go their way in the final two weeks of the season to make the play-offs, with Doncaster, Walsall, Crawley and Barrow all above them.

“I am not expecting that to happen - I think people will get results around us,” Clemence admitted.

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Second placed Mansfield have scored twice the amount of goals that Gillingham have managed - 87 compared to 43 - which is why one team spent the week celebrating promotion and the other is relying on a handful of teams to lose and