The manager says he's not bothered about scoring more than one goal per game after his side was unable to do so in their opening four League Fixtures
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00:00 Bartholomew, Gillingham take on Groomsby Town at the weekend.
00:03 Yeah, absolutely, and the whole squad is really going to want to bounce back following that
00:07 really awful defeat last time out in the league.
00:10 Just to remind you, Gillingham lost 3-0 against Colchester last weekend, who going into that
00:15 fixture were bottom of the league.
00:17 Completely different situation for Gillingham going into the game.
00:19 They were the top, they had a perfect start to the season, four wins to their name, no
00:23 losses and all of those four wins with a really sort of, quite a strange pattern.
00:29 1-0, all of those games that they won, never been done before in the EFL.
00:33 Looks great on paper, but it kind of does tell you something about Gillingham's attacking
00:37 ability.
00:38 All you need to do is look at the stats and we have them here.
00:40 Coming in from Jill's Stats Facts and Trivia on Twitter, Gillingham have some of the worst
00:44 attacking stats in League Two so far this year.
00:47 46.2% their possession so far in their league games and goals of course with just four to
00:52 their name, 20th out of all of the League Two sides.
00:55 Hopefully, now following that brilliant showing at Luton earlier this week in the EFL Cup,
01:01 that's going to lift some of the sort of pressure that they've had about scoring more goals
01:05 a game and who better to ask than Gillingham's number nine striker, Tom Nicholls.
01:09 I spoke to him earlier today, he scored his first goal of the season earlier this week.
01:13 It's a bit crazy, it was four 1-0s in a row, but we created enough chances to score more
01:22 than that.
01:23 I know Crawley wasn't our best performance, but certainly at home to Akrington we had
01:27 plenty of chances to score more than that.
01:29 So yeah, it was nice to get some more goals really and show that we can do that.
01:33 I mean, it's very important after a disappointing result here, we need to bounce back really
01:38 and we need to get right back on the horse, which I felt like we did the other night.
01:43 Even though we didn't come away with the win like we wanted, the performance was much better
01:47 I think.
01:48 And much the same was expressed by Neil Harris in the press conference today as well.
01:51 He had a lot of praise to give his team.
01:53 It's about winning games.
01:54 Whether it's 1-0, whether it's 6-0, you have to win games of football.
01:59 I don't think anyone really cares come five o'clock whether it's 1-0 or 4-3.
02:05 It's about getting over the line.
02:06 I've always prided my sides on having a good defensive mentality.
02:12 That's every player on the pitch is a defender without the ball.
02:16 And it's our job to try and keep clean sheets as a group.
02:19 But when we go down the other end, whether it's open play or set plays, it's our job
02:23 as a team to score goals.