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Match insight

On paper this looks straightforward, but Gillingham's recent form against a struggling Tranmere Rovers makes it more of a puzzle than the table suggests. Gillingham currently sit 9 places and 4 points above Tranmere Rovers in the table — 4th against 13th. Gillingham have taken 10 points from their last 5, against 3 for Tranmere Rovers over the same stretch. Tranmere Rovers are outperforming our metrics by some distance — about 10 places higher in the actual table than their underlying rating alone would suggest.