Home advantage could prove decisive in Gillingham - Southend United battle

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Competition: England League One
Date: Sat 05.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: MEMS Priestfield Stadium (11582 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the League One, Gillingham holding 16th place and Southend United lying 21st. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Gillingham and Southend United should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Gillingham form and stats

Gillingham have collected 7 points from their League One home games so far after 2-1-2.

The fans are hoping that Gillingham will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-3 away loss in the League One game against Oxford United (placed 10th). Preceding that match was the home game against Ipswich Town that was lost 0-1.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Gillingham matches with similar probabilities have ended with 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from one game).

Gillingham are traveling soon after this match as the EFL Trophy match at Ipswich Town awaits in three days.

Goals decide football matches and Gillingham are scoring many of them at home; 10 on target from 5 league matches. 5 goals have been conceded.

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Southend United form and stats

1-0-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Southend United in their League One matches away.

Southend United failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Accrington Stanley (placed 17th) that ended with defeat 0-1. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Milton Keynes Dons at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Southend United when being an outsider away as they are today, we find six matches with the visitors losing 5 times, drawing 0 and winning 1 game.

Southend United have scored 7 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Southend United's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 13 goals in 5 travels.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 4 Gillingham victories, 3 draws and 3 Southend United wins. 6 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

S. Humphrys
5 goals
A. Jakubiak
4 goals / 1 assists
M. Ndjoli
2 goals / 1 assists

Gillingham missing players

Southend United missing players

Gillingham Southend United
Total Home Home vs low Statistics Stat Away vs low Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 0 5 10
2 2 1 Won W 0 1 1
4 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
4 2 0 Lost L 0 4 8
14 10 5 Scored S 0 7 11
13 5 0 Conceded C 0 13 25
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
80% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 70%
50% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 60%
30% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 60% 50%
10% 20% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 30%
50% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 40%
20% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 10%
30% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 50%
 
5.8 6.2 7 Corners For (avg) C F 0 2.8 3.3
4.1 3.6 1 Corners Against (avg) C A 0 6.2 5.5
0.8 0.4 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 0 2.6 2
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 1
Key stats This season:
  • Gillingham have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gillingham haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Southend United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Southend United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Southend United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Gillingham
All EFL Trophy League One Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
07-09-19 LO Tranmere Rovers 2 - 2 Gillingham
14-09-19 LO Gillingham 2 - 0 Wycombe Wanderers
17-09-19 LO Bristol Rovers 1 - 1 Gillingham
21-09-19 LO Gillingham 0 - 1 Ipswich Town
28-09-19 LO Oxford United 3 - 0 Gillingham
05-10-19 LO Gillingham 14:00 Southend United
08-10-19 EFL Ipswich Town 18:45 Gillingham
12-10-19 LO Portsmouth 14:00 Gillingham
19-10-19 LO Gillingham 14:00 Peterborough United
22-10-19 LO Shrewsbury Town 18:45 Gillingham
Southend United
All EFL Trophy League One Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
03-09-19 EFL Leyton Orient 2 - 0 Southend United
14-09-19 LO Southend United 3 - 3 Fleetwood Town
17-09-19 LO Shrewsbury Town 4 - 3 Southend United
21-09-19 LO Milton Keynes Dons 0 - 1 Southend United
28-09-19 LO Southend United 0 - 1 Accrington Stanley
01-10-19 EFL Southend United 18:45 Brighton U21
05-10-19 LO Gillingham 14:00 Southend United
12-10-19 LO Southend United 14:00 AFC Wimbledon
18-10-19 LO Tranmere Rovers 18:45 Southend United
22-10-19 LO Southend United 18:45 Doncaster Rovers

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ipswich Town 10 7 3 0 20 5 5 3 2 0 10 3 5 4 1 0 10 2 15 24
2 Wycombe Wanderers 11 6 4 1 18 10 6 5 1 0 14 7 5 1 3 1 4 3 8 22
3 Fleetwood Town 10 6 2 2 20 13 5 4 1 0 9 4 5 2 1 2 11 9 7 20
4 Coventry City 10 5 5 0 16 10 6 5 1 0 10 4 4 0 4 0 6 6 6 20
5 Sunderland 10 5 4 1 16 12 5 3 2 0 9 5 5 2 2 1 7 7 4 19
6 Blackpool 11 5 4 2 16 13 5 3 1 1 7 6 6 2 3 1 9 7 3 19
7 Bristol Rovers 11 5 3 3 14 12 6 3 3 0 10 5 5 2 0 3 4 7 2 18
8 Peterborough United 10 5 2 3 23 12 5 3 1 1 15 7 5 2 1 2 8 5 11 17
9 Doncaster Rovers 9 4 4 1 12 8 6 4 1 1 10 6 3 0 3 0 2 2 4 16
10 Oxford United 11 4 3 4 22 15 5 3 1 1 12 7 6 1 2 3 10 8 7 15
11 Lincoln City 11 4 1 6 15 17 5 3 0 2 8 7 6 1 1 4 7 10 -2 13
12 Shrewsbury Town 10 3 4 3 9 13 5 2 2 1 5 6 5 1 2 2 4 7 -4 13
13 Rotherham United 9 3 3 3 12 9 4 1 2 1 7 4 5 2 1 2 5 5 3 12
14 Burton Albion 9 3 3 3 11 9 4 1 1 2 2 2 5 2 2 1 9 7 2 12
15 Milton Keynes Dons 10 4 0 6 12 15 6 3 0 3 5 8 4 1 0 3 7 7 -3 12
16 Gillingham 10 2 4 4 14 13 5 2 1 2 10 5 5 0 3 2 4 8 1 10
17 Accrington Stanley 10 2 4 4 12 17 4 1 1 2 6 8 6 1 3 2 6 9 -5 10
18 Rochdale 10 2 4 4 10 17 5 0 3 2 3 7 5 2 1 2 7 10 -7 10
19 Portsmouth 8 2 3 3 10 10 4 2 2 0 8 5 4 0 1 3 2 5 0 9
20 Tranmere Rovers 10 2 3 5 15 20 5 2 2 1 13 8 5 0 1 4 2 12 -5 9
21 Southend United 10 1 1 8 11 25 5 0 1 4 4 12 5 1 0 4 7 13 -14 4
22 AFC Wimbledon 11 0 3 8 11 21 5 0 3 2 4 7 6 0 0 6 7 14 -10 3
23 Bolton Wanderers 9 0 3 6 2 25 4 0 3 1 1 6 5 0 0 5 1 19 -23 -9

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