Gillingham made it tough for league leaders Leyton Orient to claim promotion and will hope to do the same against weekend opponents Bradford.

Orient lost 2-0 at Priestfield on Tuesday but results elsewhere meant they were still able to claim one of three automatic promotion places from League 2.

Bradford are looking to secure a play-off spot with automatic promotion looking beyond them after a midweek loss.

The Gills are in fine form at home but manager Neil Harris knows his men are capable of beating anyone in the league on their day, wherever it may be.

They won’t fear a trip to Valley Parade, buoyed by their midweek win which secured the club’s Football League status.

Harris, whose side have three games left, said: “The players know me enough by now, I am relentless.

“I won’t step back. I have told them I am going to pick teams to win games and they all want to be in that team.

“We have earned the right to go and enjoy three games of football. We will be picking a team and preparing to win at Bradford.

“I said to the players - and (Gills midfielder) Timothee Dieng can support it because he has played there - if you have never played at Bradford City at this stage of the season, it is a mega place to play, there will be 18-20,000 people there.

“They are trying to get promoted, they play ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ before their games. It’s a brilliant place to play.

“We now want to go and upset the apple cart. We upset Orient to a certain degree by beating them, they couldn’t win the league, but they got promoted. We want to do the same at Bradford.

“We want to finish the season strongly, we have three games left and we still have a say in who goes up and who goes into the play-offs. It is important that we finish on a high. I will pick teams accordingly.”

The Gills, who were bottom at Christmas, now have their eyes set on a mid-table spot. They are just four points off a top-half finish.

“That is credit to the players,” said Harris, who always has his finger on the stats. “[We’ve] 37 points in 20 games [and that would equate to] 74 points off 40 games - that would put us in the top three. That is what we want to produce between now and the end of the season.

“Another four, five or six points at the end of the season would put us into [the] top-two on form and that is what we want to show over the course of a season. We should have held on and got a point at Northampton (on Easter Monday) but the geezer puts it into the top corner from 25 yards.

“[There was] a 90th-minute equaliser at home against Stockport where we probably deserved to win and we beat Leyton Orient. Fair play to the lads, but we have three more.”