Lincoln City vs Gillingham Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Lincoln City

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Lincoln City, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 4-0 EFL Trophy victory vs Accrington Stanley.

Fixtures featuring Lincoln City have proved to be entertaining ones lately with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 16 of these belonging to The Red Imps.

Going into this one, Lincoln City are winless against Gillingham in their last 3 league games.

Gillingham

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Gillingham go into this meeting after a 0-1 League One win vs Accrington Stanley in their most recent match.

The only name on the scoresheet from Gillingham was Kyle Dempsey (45').

The numbers tell their own story, and Gillingham have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 8 goals in all. At the back, The Gills just haven’t been too solid at all. Historical results aside, time will tell if the trend might persist in this upcoming game.

Coming into this meeting, Gillingham remain undefeated by Lincoln City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 28/10/2008 shows that Lincoln City have won 3 of these & Gillingham 2, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A total of 11 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 from The Red Imps and 6 netted by The Gills. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league game between these clubs was League One match day 35 on 22/02/2020 which finished with the scoreline of Lincoln City 0-0 Gillingham.

The referee was Tom Nield.

ℹ️ Team News: Lincoln City

Lincoln City boss Michael Appleton doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free group ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Gillingham

Thanks to a completely injury-free group to pick from, Gillingham boss Steve Evans has no fitness worries to report coming into this clash.

🧠 Prediction

In this match, Lincoln City will probably be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.

Conversely, Gillingham might well find it a difficult task to score - but, we do see them getting the chances to score, too.

We reckon that it will be a fairly comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Lincoln City at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 00:09 15/01/2021