Steve Lovell knows he needs to start turning his side’s positive play into points.

The Gills manager has implemented an attacking style, one which has been good on the eye, but has seen the team pick up just one point from their last four games.

For Lovell, whose side face Wimbledon at home this Saturday, he now wants to see some reward.

He said: “I have always said it is performances that count, but obviously performances have to result in results so now we have to start turning performances into results

“We haven’t had the rub of the green. In the last four games, we have been in all of the games apart from Coventry at home, when we got a point, all the others we have been in the game and got nothing out of it.

“There is a good spirit in the camp and the boys are enjoying their football, we just need to get a result, it has to come, it has to come Saturday and we want it to come, obviously.”

Gillingham had a tough start, playing the three relegated teams from the Championships in their opening six league fixtures.

“Results don’t lie,” said the manager,

“We have had a very tough league start, we started well and lost a couple of games against some of the better sides in the league and now we are coming up against the sides around us in the league.

“We have got to start picking up points and hopefully we will start Saturday but it is going to be tough. Wimbledon are a good side, well organised and it’s like a local derby. There will be a good atmosphere, a good crowd and I am looking forward to it.”

Gillingham are likely to be without their captain Gabriel Zakuani for the home game, missing with a shoulder injury. Last season’s player-of-the-year Mark Byrne could be back though, after missing out lately with a hamstring injury.