Gillingham 3-1 Southend United: result and report

Gillingham 3-1 Southend United

League One · Saturday 5 October 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Gillingham defeated Southend United 3-1 in the League One on Saturday 5 October 2019. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Alfie Jones opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Gillingham's goals came from Alfie Jones (43'), Stuart O'Keefe (46') and Brandon Hanlan (87'). Southend United scored through Simon Cox (58').

Discipline: Gillingham received 1 yellow card; Southend United received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Gillingham were 16th on 10 points from 10 and Southend United 21st on 4 points from 10. Gillingham went on to finish that season 11th with 51 points, and Southend United 23rd with 19.

Gillingham lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Southend United in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Stephen McLaughlin of Southend United (8.1), ahead of Oliver Lee (7.7).

Going into the match Gillingham's last five read L-L-D-W-D and Southend United's L-W-L-D-L.