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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 35 (setup 1, season 32)
Gillingham
v.
Portsmouth
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Andrea CONSIGLI61Wojciech SZCZESNY
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Sime VRSALJKO25Aymeric LAPORTE
James MILNER3Marcelo BROZOVIC
BORJA Valero Iglesias846Ander HERRERA Agüera
Gary CAHILL57Joshua KIMMICH
Niklas MOISANDER67Shkodran MUSTAFI
Alex OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN77Ángel Fabián DI MARÍA
Julian DRAXLER787Miralem PJANIC
Gareth BALE96Marco REUS
Josip ILICIC10JUAN Guilherme Nunes Jesus
IAGO Aspas Juncal611Romelu LUKAKU
Finn Oskar BauerManagerNigel Beck
James WILSON12Nicola SANSONE
Harry WILSON13Jeroen ZOET
Isaiah BROWN14Alex IWOBI
Ryan LEDSON15Ilkay GÜNDOGAN
Lewis BAKER16Stevan JOVETIC

Gillingham 1 Portsmouth 2
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 35,796, Stadium: Priestfield, Referee: Eddie ILDERTON 6½)
44 BaleScorers51 Di María, 63 Lukaku
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
2Corners1
15Fouls10
0Offsides2
7Shots on8
4Shots off7
11Total shots15
5Shots saved5
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: BORJA Valero Iglesias
1BORJA beat a number of Portsmouth players and stroked a shot over.
4A penalty box meleé resulted in PJANIC knocking a low shot wide.
6LUKAKU stroked a simple chance past the far post.
9The 'keeper blocked a neatly crafted strike from REUS.
12A delightful save prevented DI MARÍA from scoring a good goal.
15A good effort from JUAN scraped the outside of the post.
22A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing CONSIGLI.
24LUKAKU ran onto a wonderful ball from HERRERA but blasted his effort wide.
25PJANIC beat CAHILL but lashed the ball into the arms of CONSIGLI.
36BALE made space on the left and dragged the ball to DRAXLER who rasped the ball wide.
36A deadly shot from BORJA was pushed round the post by the Portsmouth 'keeper.
42A shot from DI MARÍA was nodded off the line by CAHILL.
44GOAL!! A cross from MILNER was headed away by PJANIC only for IAGO to volley the ball back into the box for BALE to force into the net. (1-0 Gillingham)
45+2A drive from LUKAKU seemed a certain goal but CONSIGLI managed to force the ball clear.
 
46The bemused CONSIGLI could only watch as a backpass from MILNER fell just wide.
48BALE's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
51GOAL!! A short corner was chipped out to DI MARÍA who hit the ball in off the post. (1-1)
52PJANIC beat DRAXLER and blasted the ball to REUS who fumbled his shot wide.
59BROZOVIC played the ball to PJANIC who flicked it over the bar.
63GOAL!! A long clearance by the Portsmouth 'keeper beat the Gillingham defence and LUKAKU drove the ball past the advancing CONSIGLI. (2-1 Portsmouth)
64BALE was put clear by VRSALJKO and he dummied the Portsmouth 'keeper but glanced his shot wide.
70A header by DRAXLER at the near post was easily collected by SZCZESNY.
71A lovely cross from DRAXLER, was nudged goalbound by BALE only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
83A mix up in the Portsmouth defence enabled BALE to thump the ball inches over.
88A brilliant shot from DRAXLER was dealt with by a fine parry from the 'keeper.
90A shot from ILICIC held little difficulty for SZCZESNY.