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Gillingham manager Steve Lovell has plenty of attacking options against Oldham Athletic on Saturday

10:31, 12 April 2018

updated: 10:31, 12 April 2018

Gillingham boss Steve Lovell faces a striker dilemma this weekend.

Josh Parker returned to action with an impressive midweek display against Blackburn Rovers and Tom Eaves is expected to be fit again this Saturday.

Fellow striker Conor Wilkinson has seen plenty of action lately and Lovell is keen to see more of Liam Nash before the season ends.

Gillingham's Josh Parker outfoxes Blackburn's Corry Evans. Picture: Andy Jones
Gillingham's Josh Parker outfoxes Blackburn's Corry Evans. Picture: Andy Jones

Selecting who to play is a problem Lovell is relishing.

He said: “We have got some decent forwards here and hopefully they all get fit and can give me a bit of a headache.

“Josh did well for us (against Blackburn) and we have missed him, it proved that, he brings a lot of energy to our team and he had an excellent game.

“It would have crowned it off had he scored but he got a bit excited with a chance at the end (a heavy touch ending hopes of a goal) and we have all been there, when you are through on goal and you think, ‘right this is it’ and it just runs away from you, but he had an excellent game.

“Josh is our second top scorer (with 11 goals) behind Tom (14) and in the last three or four games we have been without the two of them, one through injury and the other through a lack of form.

“I don’t want to leave any of my top scorers out but sometimes you have to do it for them to come back hungry again. Tom showed that last Saturday when he came on.”

The Gills are up against relegation threatened Oldham Athletic this weekend, away from home.

And with just one goal in their last five games, Lovell knows whoever he picks will have to start finding the net.

He said: “We haven’t scored enough goals and that is something we will work on, between now and the end of the season and the off season and try and put that right for next season.

“We went through a period in December and January when we couldn’t stop scoring, it happens, football is not predictable, anything can happen. There are not many teams who would have given us any hope (against Blackburn) but we played like we have for most of the season, against the league leaders and gave them the game.”

Read the full story - as part of four pages of Gills coverage - in Thursday's Medway Messenger

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