The chase is on for the League 1 automatic promotion places.

Gillingham’s impressive recent form has renewed hope they could finish inside the top two this season. It remains a long shot but boss Justin Edinburgh isn’t giving it up.

He said: “There are still enough points to play for.

“Every game will be tough for every team from now until the end of the season and we have to keep chasing the pack.

“We have come out the other side of the blip (losing three in a row) and are winning in different ways. We have to find ways to win matches and it has been pleasing. It has set us up nicely for a hectic April.”

Gillingham have eight games left and five of them are at home.

As one of the country’s best-performing teams at home this season – having lost only twice at Priestfield – Edinburgh is rightly confident that they can keep pushing the leading sides all the way.

Leaders Burton are nine points ahead of the Gills but with a game in hand and the sides still to meet again, hopes of catching them is not out of the question.