Gillingham first-team coach Nicky Southall writes exclusively for the KM Group
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It’s been a good Christmas for us and the three points against
Crawley on Boxing Day were a great present.
The boys dug in and to come back from 1-0 down against the
leaders was a fantastic effort.
We travel to Dagenham on Friday and they are picking up a
bit so we need to be on our guard.
It will be a difficult game but if the Crawley result doesn’t
give you belief to go into the new year, then nothing ever will.
Hopefully, we can just keep extending our unbeaten run.
We have ended Crawley’s run and need to keep ours going. We had
fantastic support from 1,300 Gillingham fans at Crawley and they
made it quite an intimidating place.
It was a great effort and I am sure we will have another good
following at Dagenham.
The game at Crawley was billed to be one of the top games of the
day and that’s the way it turned out. We got the right result but
it was a bit of a bad tempered affair.
There were a couple of sendings-off but not a massive amount of
chances in the game. When we came out in the second half, they
couldn’t live with us when we passed the ball.
They were two great goals from Jo Kuffour, who looked a livewire
all game. Jo has great movement and gets into those positions and
can finish.
Alongside him, Keds worked his socks off, against two physical
centre halves and they gave a good account of themselves. At the
other end, Garry Richards and Matt Lawrence did likewise at the
heart of our defence.
I know Matty was at fault for the penalty but he saved us two
points because he cleared one off the line late on.
Thursday, December 29 2011
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