Swindon Town 1-3 Gillingham: result and report
League One · Saturday 26 December 2015
Result
Swindon Town 1-3 Gillingham
League One · Saturday 26 December 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Swindon Town 1-3 Gillingham: match report
Swindon Town were beaten by Gillingham 1-3 in the League One on Saturday 26 December 2015. It was 1-2 at half-time.
Jonathan Obika opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Swindon Town's goal came from Jonathan Obika (18'). Gillingham scored through B. Dack (19'), J. Hessenthaler (35') and Ryan Jackson (69').
Discipline: Swindon Town received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Gillingham received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Swindon Town were 14th on 28 points from 22 and Gillingham 3rd on 41 points from 22. Swindon Town went on to finish that season 15th with 59 points, and Gillingham 9th with 69.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Swindon Town wins, 3 draws and 4 for Gillingham.
Going into the match Swindon Town's last five read W-W-W-W-L and Gillingham's W-L-D-W-L.
Key events
- 16'Yellow card · J. Hessenthaler
- 18'Goal · Jonathan Obika
- 19'Goal · B. Dack
- 35'Goal · J. Hessenthaler
- 44'Yellow card · Raphael Rossi
- 64'Yellow card · Adedeji Oshilaja
- 65'Yellow card · B. Dack
- 65'Yellow card · Ryan Jackson
- 69'Goal · Ryan Jackson
- 84'Second yellow · Raphael Rossi
- 90'Yellow card · Yaser Kasim
- 90+2'Yellow card · B. Barry
- 90+3'Missed penalty · B. Dack
Head-to-head
Team news
Swindon Town line-up
Lawrence Vigouroux, Jordan Turnbull, Raphael Rossi, Adam El-Abd, Ben Gladwin, Louis Thompson, Anton Rodgers, Brad Barry, Fabien Robert, Nicky Ajose, Jonathan Obika
Gillingham line-up
Stuart Nelson, John Egan, Aaron Morris, Ryan Jackson, Bradley Garmston, Jake Hessenthaler, Bradley Dack, Josh Wright, Deji Oshilaja, Dominic Samuel, Rory Donnelly