{"id":563,"date":"2022-01-28T13:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/?p=563"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:22:03","slug":"disappointing-performance-for-gillingham-against-shrewsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/2022\/01\/28\/disappointing-performance-for-gillingham-against-shrewsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing Performance for Gillingham against Shrewsbury\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gillingham, who have been without a manager for almost three weeks since Steve Evans left the team, were faced with the reality of being forced to leave Priestfield Stadium in a stalemate, after failing to draw against Shrewsbury.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shrewsbury midfielder Elliott Bennett opened with an almost flawless goal, trying to curl a free \u2013 kick around a post. He was blocked by Swedish \u2013 born goalie Pontus Dahlberg, on loan from Watford.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caretaker manager Steve Lovell brought striker John Akinde and forward Charlie Kelman, both of whom were subs in Gillingham\u2019s losing match to Wigan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another close shot came from Akinde, who managed to fire from close range to the goal, but wasted another opportunity to score, nine minutes into the second half.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the closest score for Gillingham came from midfielder Danny Lloyd in the second half, who hit the outside of the post from a thirty-yard free \u2013 kick, conceding to a goal kick.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The draw means that Gillingham have gone 13 games without winning a single league game. They now sit 23<sup>rd<\/sup> on the League one table, out of a possible 24.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gillingham\u2019s next game is today, at 15:00 against Oxford United, currently sixth on the League Table.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillingham, who have been without a manager for almost three weeks since Steve Evans left the team, were faced with the reality of being forced to leave Priestfield Stadium in a stalemate, after failing to draw against Shrewsbury.&nbsp;&nbsp; Shrewsbury midfielder Elliott Bennett opened with an almost flawless goal, trying to curl a free \u2013 kick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-from-kent-and-beyond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentconnect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}