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Justin Edinburgh's Gillingham travel to Premier League Watford in the second round of the League Cup

Gillingham manager Justin Edinburgh has backed his team to bounce back at Premier League Watford.

His team face Walter Mazzari's men in the second round of the League Cup at Vicarage Road tonight (Tuesday).

Gillingham boss Justin Edinburgh. Picture: Barry Goodwin
Gillingham boss Justin Edinburgh. Picture: Barry Goodwin

The Gills lost 5-0 to Scunthorpe at the weekend.

Edinburgh said: “Opportunities have arisen and Tuesday is a chance for us to restore our reputation, individually and collectively.

“I will pick a team that will try and get a result at Watford. Some may get another opportunity to put what went wrong right but some might not.

“(Saturday’s defeat) was avoidable. I back the team. That won’t happen again. If we had been played off the park and outrun and outfought then I would have been concerned but I think we can put these things right.”

It was Gillingham’s heaviest defeat under Edinburgh’s reign, the previous low being a 4-1 loss at Coventry in November 2014.

Individual errors proved costly this time around.

Keeper Stuart Nelson made two mistakes but the manager, who has youngster Tom Hadler waiting in the wings, seems likely to stick with his first choice stopper.

Edinburgh added: “Stuart hasn’t done that (made mistakes) in his career. You know that isn’t what Stuart is about, that is why he is regarded as the best goalkeeper in this league and why a lot of clubs were chasing him (in the summer).

“People have lapses in form. Stuart had two errors and the rest were from different individuals. It was a bad result but they tried, they went to the end and everything was more than avoidable.”

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