Preview: Gillingham manager Neil Harris looks ahead to League 1 clash against Ipswich Town

Gillingham will want to show they’ve made improvements since the last time they met Ipswich Town.

It’s been all-change at Gillingham following the 4-0 defeat at home against Ipswich at Priestfield on January 8 in a match that ended Steve Evans' time as manager. The Gills make the return trip to Ipswich's Portman Road on Saturday.

A month on from that thrashing and the Gills are now under a new manager and have renewed belief after a three-week search led to Neil Harris being appointed. He got off to a winning start on Tuesday, beating Crewe 1-0, but knows his team face a big task this weekend.

Harris said: “It is an enormous task and we want to be better than when we played Ipswich at home, we want to be better and we have to build on what we did on Tuesday, we need the players individually and collectively to perform.

“We can’t guarantee anything, we are playing a side who have had time to nail down what they want to do under their new manager (Kieran McKenna) and he is a good guy. They have had some good results, we are playing a team who arguably have the best squad in the league, a ridiculous budget for the division and a team that shouldn’t be in this division next year and whether they are or not we will have to see.”

Harris has finally had time to work on the training ground with his Gillingham team after joining just a day before they played Crewe in midweek.

He said: “I want to enjoy my job and I want my players to enjoy their jobs and embrace it, and they have, and the standards in training have been excellent. We had small glimpses on Tuesday of the quality we have got and how the players want to learn.

“I am not going to get a true reflection of the players until probably four games in, then I will get a real