Gillingham’s gap to safety shrunk on Saturday and goalkeeper Glenn Morris knows they still have plenty to do.

The Gills are seven points clear from the bottom two - down from nine before the weekend - after slipping up against an out-of-form Walsall at the weekend.

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A massive deflection turned the game at Walsall in the home side’s favour and they went on to win 2-0. Gillingham remain well on course for safety with 10 games to play but there’s no complacency from the keeper.

“I have seen it all in football,” said the 39-year-old. “I wouldn’t want to say (we are safe). I am not looking that way.

“I am looking to win on Tuesday (at home to Crewe) and to move 10 points away and keep kicking on and moving up. Just to get as far away as possible. As soon as we can get that done that’s the main thing.

“They say 50 points (for safety), it might be a little less, but we just have to make sure we get as many as possible.”

The Gills now need to pick themselves up for the midweek clash. Crewe have an 11 point cushion over the drop-zone but will be keen to make it mathematically safe themselves. The midweek visitors have suffered successive 1-0 defeats, against Stevenage and Northampton.

Looking ahead, Morris said: “We go into it full of confidence, we are off the back of a defeat but we know what we can do at home, the boys are looking forward to that game to put this right.

“Saturday was disappointing, we didn’t get ourselves going, like we have done in recent weeks, for whatever reason. Sometimes your levels drop a little bit and that is maybe what happened. It has been a tough few weeks, a tough season, but we can’t use that as an excuse.

“We have to make sure we are firing all cylinders going into Monday’s training and then into Tuesday.”

It was a deflected shot from Isaac Hutchinson on 50 minutes that turned the game on Saturday. The effort looked to be heading for the safety of Morris’ gloves before hitting Max Ehmer’s back and dropping into the bottom corner of the net. It was a cruel way to conceded and a goal the Gills had no answer to.

Walsall scored a second in stoppage-time against a Gills side that on the day lacked potency upfront.

Morris said: “I felt that I would have had it covered but you don’t know, it is one of those things, what can you do?

“Defenders have to try and put their body on the line, you have to shoot to score, he has taken his chance, it’s hit someone and gone in. Fair play to them, lady luck wasn’t on our side.

“He has had a shot and in football you have to take your chance and shoot and he has done it, it’s hit someone and gone in, that’s what we needed, it didn’t quite happen for us at the other end but fair play to them, they probably did deserve it on the chances but it was one of those games.”

Morris had to tip a couple of efforts over the bar first half and the Gills were on the backfoot after conceding early in the second half.

The Gills keeper added: “First half it didn’t seem like there was a lot in the game, it felt like we were right in there, we had a few chances but the goal's killed us a bit, set us back and we couldn’t manage to get a foothold in the game after that. It was one of those where it didn’t happen for us.”