Preview: Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence looks ahead to League 2 match at MK Dons

Gillingham head coach Stephen Clemence felt frustrated too last weekend and insists the way the team played wasn’t part of the plan.

Clemence wants the Gills playing “on the front foot” and will be demanding more from them when they head to MK Dons for a League 2 game this Saturday.

Fans had little to cheer about in a 1-1 draw against Forest Green last weekend and even the addition of an attack-minded wing-back couldn’t fire the Gills to victory against the bottom side.

Many supporters were left frustrated and Clemence was too.

Clemence said: “What we have done in the last five or six games is right up there in the division when you look at the numbers and stats. I know the only stats that matter are how many goals you score and whether you win games, but we are heading in the right direction.

“I have to be honest, the last game I was just as frustrated as the fans were at the end of the game. I do feel that we should be beating Forest Green and I went back home on Saturday and then Sunday, watched the game again and I understand, we played far too slow.

“We started playing possession in our own half, which is not how we are set up to play, but Forest Green showed us that respect and sat off us and it is the first time that someone has really done that to us. I felt we corrected it at half-time, we were fine for 20-25 minutes of the second half, we got a goal ahead and then we didn’t see the game out and could have lost it, which was disappointing.

“The week before we went to Accrington Stanley, above us in the league, we go a goal behind and come back and win the game. The group is not in a bad place, four league games unbeaten, and players should be looking forward to the game at the weekend.

“I think everyone thinks