Only the woodwork denied Scott Kashket from ending Gillingham’s goal drought at the weekend - but the goals will come says the striker.

He hit the upright in the goalless draw with Swindon and the Gills are on a run of seven games without scoring heading into their weekend clash with Crawley Town.

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Kashket’s effort in the 1-0 win over Rochdale a month ago was the club’s only goal in the league so far from seven played but the willing runner - who picked up the sponsor’s man-of-the-match award on Saturday - is confident that will change soon.

“It has only been seven games and I don’t believe it will carry on like this,” said the summer signing.

“They will start flying in. For me, any chance I get in front of goal I back myself and I know Mika (Mandron) does, it is just once one goes in they will start flowing.

“We will work on the training pitch, do some shape work and patterns of play and I'm sure the goals will start coming.”

Gillingham had to settle for a point against Swindon after playing most of the match with 10 men. Not the outcome they were expecting pre-match, or even after the opening stages as they dominated the visitors, but the point was well earned.

Kashket said: “We’re extremely pleased, especially after you get a red card after nine minutes, it’s frustrating not to win but we came away with a clean sheet and a 0-0 draw, playing 81 minutes with a man down.

“We showed the standard and the desire, how hard we are willing to work and, if we can do that with 11 men, we will be a very hard team to beat.

“I felt in the first nine minutes we would get a goal, the game changed, we had to sit deeper but it was a really good effort from the boys.

“When you put that much effort into the game it is always going to be disappointing if you don’t come away with something, a draw would have to do, you always want three (points), but we can’t be disappointed with the one.

“There was a lot of running, that is all as a manager they can ask for, for us to put the hard work in and you are not always going to have the best game, the touch can’t always be there, but as a player the one thing we are always in control of is putting in an absolute shift, it wasn’t just me, everyone on the pitch showed that.”