Macclesfield Town 2-4 Gillingham: result and report
League Two · Saturday 11 December 2010
Result
Macclesfield Town 2-4 Gillingham
League Two · Saturday 11 December 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-4
Macclesfield Town 2-4 Gillingham: match report
Macclesfield Town were beaten by Gillingham 2-4 in the League Two on Saturday 11 December 2010. It was 1-4 at half-time.
H. Bencherif opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Macclesfield Town's goals came from H. Bencherif (7') and T. Barnett (71'). Gillingham scored through C. Whelpdale (9'), Josh Gowling (12'), Cody McDonald (19') and Adebayo Akinfenwa (33').
Discipline: Macclesfield Town received 2 yellow cards; Gillingham received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Macclesfield Town were 10th on 25 points from 18 and Gillingham 16th on 22 points from 18. Macclesfield Town went on to finish that season 15th with 54 points, and Gillingham 7th with 71.
Going into the match Macclesfield Town's last five read L-W-W-D-W and Gillingham's W-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 7'Goal · H. Bencherif
- 9'Goal · C. Whelpdale
- 12'Goal · Josh Gowling
- 19'Goal · Cody McDonald
- 33'Goal · Adebayo Akinfenwa
- 71'Goal · T. Barnett
- 82'Yellow card · R. Draper
- 85'Yellow card · Izak Reid
- 90'Yellow card · J. Martin
Team news
Macclesfield Town line-up
José Veiga, Paul Morgan, Toto Nsiala, Izak Reid, Hamza Bencherif, Lewis Chalmers, Ross Draper, Paul Bolland, Emile Sinclair, Tyrone Barnett, Vinny Mukendi
Gillingham line-up
Alan Julian, Barry Fuller, John Nutter, Matt Lawrence, Charlie Lee, Kevin Maher, Daniel Spiller, Chris Whelpdale, Cody McDonald, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Josh Gowling