Colchester United vs Gillingham Live Stream, Predictions

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Colchester United

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Colchester United are hoping to win again following the 1-2 League Two victory over Rochdale.

For Colchester United, goals were scored by Junior Tchamadeu (26') and Cole Skuse (87'). Devante Rodney (36') was the scorer for Rochdale.

In their preceding six fixtures, Matt Bloomfield's Colchester United have netted a total of 8 times - an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.33.

Gillingham

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Gillingham go into this match following a 2-0 League Two win to defeat Hartlepool United in their last fixture.

For Gillingham, the scorers were Tom Nichols (39') and Dom Jefferies (59').

The numbers tell their own story, and Gillingham have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 7 goals overall. Defensively, Gillingham seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Ahead of this meeting, Gillingham are without an away win for the past 15 matches in the league. They clearly need to do something about it.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 19/09/2015 shows us that Colchester United have won 3 of these and Gillingham 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

In all, 13 goals were produced between them in these games, with 7 from The U's and 6 belonging to The Gills. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was League Two match day 23 on 26/12/2022 when it finished Gillingham 0-1 Colchester United.

The match was refereed by Sam Purkiss.

📋 Team News: Colchester United

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Colchester United boss Matt Bloomfield to be concerned about from of an almost fully healthy group. Alan Judge (Knee Injury) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Gillingham

Owing to a fully healthy squad to pick from, the Gillingham manager Neil Harris has no fitness concerns to report ahead of this game.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Gillingham certainly have the ability to breach the defence of this Colchester United lineup, although it might not quite be as many as they’ll concede.

We are anticipating a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Colchester United by the conclusion of the game. Let’s just see how this one goes.

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Victor Martins, 01:48 17/01/2023