Gillingham 3 - 0 Port Vale

GOALS from Matt Jarvis and Neil Harris gave an impressive Gillingham their fourth consecutive league home win against 10-man Port Vale on Saturday.

Harris got goal-side of his marker in the 42nd minute before sending a thunderous drive past Vale keeper Mark Goodlad, which hit the inside of the post before going in.

Earlier, the home side had had a golden chance to take the lead after just 11 minutes when they were awarded a penalty and Port Vale were reduced to 10 men.

Matt Jarvis’s cross from the right was handled by Craig James and the referee pointed to the spot, to the disgust of captain Tony Dinning who was first booked and then shown a red card for taking his protests too far.

Tom Williams stepped up and sent Goodlad the wrong way, but his shot struck the outside of the post and went wide.

Jarvis had a great chance to double Gillingham’s lead at the beginning of the second half, but his shot went just wide of the post.

But he didn’t have to wait long to make up for that miss when on 66 minutes he was afforded too much space by the Port Vale defence to cut in from the flank before sending an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net.

And Jarvis wrapped up the victory with almost a carbon copy of his first strike with eight minutes to go.

The closest the visitors came was a Nathan Lowndes shot that was comfortably saved by Jason Brown.

Gillingham: Brown, Wallis, Johnson, Cox, Jackman, Jarvis, Crofts (Hessenthaler 83), Flynn, Williams (Spiller 63), Harris, Fobe-Edusei.
Subs Not Used: Bullock, Sancho, Grant.
Attendance: 6,210.