By Aston
March 20 2005

Ipswich Town’s promotion hopes took a minor dent today after only managing a draw with relegation threatened Gillingham.

Gillingham Report

Ipswich Town’s promotion hopes took a minor dent today after only managing a draw with relegation threatened Gillingham.

Towns first goalless draw in over a year left them 3 points behind second placed Wigan and 6 behind new league leaders Sunderland who beat Coventry 1-0 today.

Richard Naylor could of given Town the lead inside 10 minutes after he got his head Darren Currie’s free kick but Naylor’s effort was held by Brown in the Gills goal.

Despite Town being the most prolific team in the league at the start of play today very little was heard of either Darren Bent of Shefki Kuqi during the first half, most of the attacking was in fact done by the Gillingham pair of Sidibe and Douglas who troubled the Town goal a lot during the first half.

Tommy Miller and Fabian Wilnis both went close for Town inside a minute of one another.

Town manager Joe Royle brought on Jim Magilton in place of Matt Richards at the start of the second half as Town tried to get a better grip on the game but very little changed only a few real chances.

Flynn forced Davis into a acrobatic save with 30 minutes to go, Town wasted a free kick on the edge of the box other than that a very sleepy half until the final minute when Gillingham could of won it in the dieing moments when Jonathon Douglas smacked the bar from close range.

Gillingham Squad: J Brown, N Nosworthy, I Cox, C Hope, J McEveley, N Southall, P Smith, J Douglas, M Flynn, D Henderson, M Sidibe
Subs: B Bossu, D Byfield, A Crofts, J Hills, M Jarvis

Town squad: Darren Bent, Pablo Couñago, Darren Currie, Kelvin Davis, Jason De Vos, Kevin Horlock, Shefki Kuqi, Jim Magilton, Tommy Miller, Richard Naylor, Lewis Price, Matt Richards, James Scowcroft, David Unsworth, Ian Westlake, Fabian Wilnis.

After a 12 day break Town play George Burley’s Derby County side at Portman Road and three days later Rotherham come to Town while Wigan and Sunderland play each other.

	Gillingham 0	Ipswich Town 0
Yellow Cards	Henderson (16) Brown (60) McEveley (90)	Unsworth (65)
Red Cards	None	None
Goals	None	None
Substitutions	Henderson replaced by Byfield (74)	Richards replaced by Magilton (45) Westlake replaced by Horlock (66) Kuqi replaced by Scowcroft (71)
Possession	49%	51%
Shots	10	11
Corners	2	4
Fouls	12	13
Attendance: 9,311

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