Gillingham have “the perfect game” to respond to last weekend’s disappointment at Walsall.

The Gills had interim manager Keith Millen sent off for tripping a Walsall player and went on to lose 4-1, a fourth straight away league defeat of the season.

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Facing them on Saturday at Priestfield are a Notts County side who started last weekend top of League 2 before suffering their own 4-1 reverse, at home to local rivals Mansfield.

Gillingham youth team boss Mark Moss has been assisting Millen during the interim period between managers and he’s hoping the pair get a response this weekend.

“We have to bounce back and we have the perfect game at home to Notts County,” he said.

“At home we’ve been generally pretty good. We obviously have to address the away form but this is a perfect game.

“We will look at where we have gone wrong, where we can put things right, what we can do better.”

The Gills have already lost five games this season, four away, and Moss knows this has to be put right. They head to Swindon Town on Tuesday night, another side riding high in League 2.

“We know we have to be better on the road,” he said. “We have got to address the away form.

“As a coaching team we will look at it, see what we can do differently and we will come back I am sure. The coaching team have been brilliant so far.”

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County have laid on free travel for 500 of their supporters in what will be the club’s 5,000th Football League fixture and after suffering their own heavy defeat, they too will be looking for an instant response with their boss Matt Palmer saying: “Hopefully we can put it right and give the fans something to cheer about.”

The Magpies’ visit to Priestfield last time out, in May 2015, didn’t end well for them.

They needed a win to stay in League 1 and were a goal ahead before a late collapse saw Gills win the match 3-1 to send them down.

Four years later they were relegated into non-league but returned to the EFL after winning the National League play-offs last season, having ended the campaign in second spot behind Wrexham. They are among the favourites for promotion this time around.

Gillingham are yet to name a new manager following the sacking of Neil Harris on October 5.

Millen’s time in temporary charge has seen the Gills beat MK Dons at home 2-1 and lose 5-1 at Portsmouth in the EFL Trophy before defeat to Walsall.

Moss has had to split his time between the youth team, B team and first team since Harris left, helping out where needed including on matchdays, but he is enjoying the experience.

He said: “It is a privilege to be involved with the first team here, it is a great football club.

“You just try and do the best you can when you’re given the opportunity, when you step in.

“The owners and the board of directors and director of football, I am sure they will take their time over getting the right person in, that’s the right way to do it.

“It is a football club that wants to move forward and we will just do what we do until such time as a new manager comes in, or whatever happens.”