Tranmere Rovers 1 Gillingham 1 - League 2 match report from Prenton Park

Gillingham’s run of defeats came to an end at Tranmere and they registered a goal too.

The Gills were looking to revive their promotion push and fell behind to Sol Solomon’s tap-in after 17 minutes but levelled it up from an own-goal just before the break. No goals were scored in a tense second half as the game finished 1-1.

Gillingham started the afternoon with their play-off hopes getting harder by the day. They badly needed a positive result against lowly Tranmere to give everyone a much-needed boost.

Earlier matches in the division had seen the Gills drop to 17th before kick-off, needing to make up 13 points to get into the top seven.

Key to reviving their promotion bid is scoring goals. They went into the weekend without a goal or a point in their previous four games.

An own-goal ended their run without scoring and a draw at Tranmere at least stopped the losing run for the Gills.

Hosts Tranmere started the weekend with the division’s worst goal tally of just 18 but looked the more threatening during the opening half and deservedly took a 17th minute lead.

Gillingham hadn’t stared with the kind of intensity that they had the week before.

It was a fairly simple goal for the hosts, with freedom in midfield for Connor Jennings to play in Omari Patrick, who then won the foot-race with Gillingham’s right wing-back Remeao Hutton before crossing the ball into the box where Solomon side footed home without being challenged.

The Gills were without injured Crystal Palace loan signing Asher Agbinone but did have some new blood in their ranks in 22-year-old midfielder Nelson Khumbeni and on-loan 19-year-old Chelsea forward Jimmy-Jay Morgan making their debuts as starters.

Morgan was making his Football League debut and found