Gillingham 3-3 Southend United: result and report
League One · Saturday 26 August 2017
Result
Gillingham 3-3 Southend United
League One · Saturday 26 August 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Gillingham 3-3 Southend United: match report
Gillingham drew with Southend United 3-3 in the League One on Saturday 26 August 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Ryan Leonard opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Gillingham's goals came from Tom Eaves (56'), Tom Eaves (63') and Tom Eaves (80'). Southend United scored through Ryan Leonard (20'), Michael Kightly (65') and Simon Cox (73').
Discipline: Gillingham received 3 yellow cards; Southend United received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Gillingham were 20th on 1 point from 3 and Southend United 14th on 4 points from 3. Gillingham went on to finish that season 17th with 56 points, and Southend United 10th with 63.
Gillingham lined up in a 3-5-2 and Southend United in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Gillingham wins, 4 draws and 2 for Southend United.
Going into the match Gillingham's last five read L-L-D and Southend United's D-L-W.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · M. Timlin
- 20'Goal · Ryan Leonard
- 51'Yellow card · Mark Byrne
- 56'Goal · Tom Eaves
- 58'Yellow card · Jason Dimitriou
- 63'Goal · Tom Eaves
- 65'Goal · Michael Kightly
- 73'Goal · Simon Cox
- 79'Yellow card · Theo Robinson
- 80'Missed penalty · Tom Eaves
- 80'Goal · Tom Eaves
- 87'Yellow card · S. Hendrie
- 89'Yellow card · Connor Ogilvie
- 90+3'Yellow card · Tom Eaves
Head-to-head
Team news
Gillingham line-up (3-5-2)
Tomas Holy, Luke O'Neill, Alex Lacey, Max Ehmer, Gabriel Zakuani, Connor Ogilvie, Billy Bingham, Mark Byrne, Tom Eaves, Lee Martin, Liam Nash
Southend United line-up (4-4-2)
Mark Oxley, Stephen Hendrie, Anton Ferdinand, John White, Michael Kightly, Michael Timlin, Jermaine McGlashan, Ryan Leonard, Jason Demetriou, Marc-Antoine Fortune, Simon Cox