Gillingham (0) 3 Nouble 53, Emmanuel-Thomas 89, Byrne 90
Rochdale (0) 0
Attendance: 5,409
Entrance: Season Ticket
Programme: £3
Mileage: 58/4,432
Match Report
Gillingham have their first clean sheet in 27 League 1 games after beating Rochdale 3-0 at Priestfield on Saturday.
Frank Nouble’s deflected strike gave Gills the lead, with late goals from Jay Emmanuel-Thomas and Mark Byrne making sure of victory.
Rochdale were the better side in a goalless first half, without looking like scoring.
They looked dangerous out wide and in Callum Camps they had the brightest midfielder on show.
Gills were hit by the loss of Billy Knott to injury after only 14 minutes - maybe he’d have been the one to really get about Dale in the middle of the park - but it wasn’t to be.
It took Gills 25 minutes to muster a shot, Emmanuel-Thomas starting the move by intercepting a pass in midfield and combining with Cody McDonald before dragging the ball wide.
Justin Edinburgh’s side had the ball in the net on 37 minutes but Baily Cargill’s header from Bradley Dack’s free-kick was ruled out for offside.
For Dale, Joe Thompson’s control let him down in front of the Rainham End when found by Mendez-Laing, who then fired tamely at Stuart Nelson after space opened up on the edge of the box.
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