The League Two clash at One Call Stadium on Saturday will see home team Mansfield Town playing against Gillingham.
For all of our match predictions, pre-game poll and statistics for Mansfield Town v Gillingham, scroll down - plus the latest betting odds.
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Form Guide
Mansfield Town
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Mansfield Town fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 2-1 League Two victory vs Accrington Stanley.
For Mansfield Town, the goals were scored by George Maris (2') and Stephen Quinn (63'). Tommy Leigh (85') was the scorer for Accrington Stanley.
It has not been often in recent games where Mansfield Town havenโt conceded. In fact, Mansfield Town have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 9 goals on the way. Previous results aside, weโll just have to find out if that pattern will be sustained in this upcoming game.
Coming into this fixture, Mansfield Town haven't lost in the league to Gillingham in their previous 3 matches.
Gillingham
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Gillingham will come into the game following a 3-0 League Two win against Barrow in their most recent match.
For Gillingham, the goals were scored by Josh Andrews (45') and Connor Mahoney (64'). Rory Feely (55' Own goal) was the scorer for Barrow.
Stephen Clemence's Gillingham have seen their goal attempts be successful 8 times throughout their latest six matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during the equivalent period equals 9.
Heading into this fixture, Gillingham have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.
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Head to head
A glance at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 25/02/1995 shows us that Mansfield Town have won 3 of them & Gillingham 2, with the tally of drawn results being 1.
In all, 13 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 9 for The Stags and 4 being from The Gills. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.
The last league meeting featuring the two was League Two match day 10 on 30/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Gillingham 1-1 Mansfield Town.
The referee was Jacob Miles.
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Team News: Mansfield Town
Availability isnโt a big problem, with just the sole fitness concern for the Mansfield Town gaffer Nigel Clough to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy group. Alfie Kilgour (Achilles tendon rupture) wonโt play.
We are thinking that The Stags could use a 5-4-1 system for this game featuring Viktor Johansson, Sebastian Revan, Hakeem Odoffin, Lee Peltier, Cameron Humphreys, Cohen Bramall, Oliver Rathbone, Andy Rinomhota, Sam Clucas, Cafu and Sam Nombe.
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Team News: Gillingham
Due to a completely injury-free group to choose from, the Gillingham manager Stephen Clemence has zero fitness worries to speak of coming into this match.
Thereโs a good chance that The Gills seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, going with John Ruddy, Ethan Laird, Krystian Bielik, Dion Sanderson, Lee Buchanan, Seung-ho Paik, Ivan Sunjic, Koji Miyoshi, Tyler Roberts, Keshi Anderson and Jay Stansfield.
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Prediction
For this match, we think that Mansfield Town will probably get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.
At the same time, Gillingham wonโt find it easy to score although we do reckon that they could well end up hitting back at some stage, too.
Weโre predicting a controlled 3-1 winning score for Mansfield Town at the end of the match.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Peter Guest,
02:03 19/04/2024
โฝ๏ธ Team Focus:
Mansfield Town
Formed: 1897
Stadium: One Call Stadium (9,186)
Captain: Aden Flint
Chairman: John Radford
Manager: Nigel Clough
Competitions: League Two position 3
โญ Key Player: George Maris
Usually playing in the Centre Midfield position, George Maris was born in Sheffield, England. Having made a first senior appearance for Nuneaton Town in the 2014 - 2015 season, the talented Midfielder has struck 9 league goals in this League Two 2023 - 2024 season to date coming from a total of 40 appearances.