Luke Cawdell, sports journalist for Kent Online, takes us inside the Gillingham Camp ahead of Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup third round tie.

Gillingham were relegated from League One last season and their troubles seem to have continued this term, with Neil Harris’ men now just a point above the relegation zone in League Two. What have you made of what you’ve seen so far?

It has been a bit of a struggle and it is quite clear to see where the problems lie – in the goalscoring department. They have scored just six league goals so far, which is not good enough.

One of the main issues Neil Harris had to deal with when he came in was the defence. During the game before he took over, they conceded seven against Oxford. They were shipping a lot of goals and looked all over the place defensively.

He has sorted the defence out now, but he needs that to tie in with scoring goals as well. While it has got better at one end, it has got quite a lot worse at the other.

They are creating chances but not taking them and it is really costing them. They wanted to be in a much better position than the one they are in at the moment.

How much pressure do you think this start has put on Harris?

Because the team were in such a mess when he took over, I think he has got a bit of leeway.

Harris had a lot of things to deal with. He has had to rebuild a team and, even though they have dropped a division, they have not been big spenders, as was the case when they were in League One, so they have not got the money to chuck around that probably more than half of League Two teams have got.

It is always a struggle and they are always getting beaten to players by other teams. I do not know how many of his first picks he managed to get over the summer, but I certainly do not imagine he got them all.

He has had to put a team together on a low budget and when you drop a division, there are expectations to achieve. I do not believe he is under a great deal of pressure at the moment, though.

Having said that, fans are starting to look at the manager and question what is going to be done to improve. As Harris knows, it all rests on the manager in the end.

The last time the club reached the fourth round of the League Cup was in 1996/97. Do you think they will be targeting an upset at the Gtech Community Stadium?

Definitely. It would be a result they desperately need.

If Brentford take it deadly seriously and play their strongest team, they should walk it, really – it’s Premier League against League Two.

Gillingham will hope things go their way, but everything will have to align perfectly on the night.

They have got players that can excite and the fact they are going to a Premier League team will really galvanise them. There are some players who will really look to impress on the big stage, too, like Jordan Green and Hakeeb Adelakun - wingers who are looking to make a name for themselves.

Which player should Brentford fans keep an eye on?

That is a tricky one! When things are not going too well, who do you turn to? That is the problem with Gillingham. There is no one player who has stood out, really.

The manager has recently picked out defender Elkan Baggott as the man to look to. He is on loan from Ipswich and only 20 years old, so has not played that much football.

Baggott is a big guy, an Indonesian international, and he has probably got a big future in the game if he carries on the way he has been going. He has really started to look impressive in a Gillingham backline that actually has not done too badly this season.

But to be picking out a defender as the star man probably sums up Gillingham’s season so far, unfortunately.

How is Harris likely to set up his side in West London?

That is another tricky one because he has changed it quite a bit. He has not got a formation that he has stuck to or a team that he has stuck to, so he could play anything, to be honest.

When he first took over, he went to three at the back, just to shore up the defence, which worked for him because he was not sure that a 4-4-2 could be played as he was worried about the possibility of getting run over by other teams.

I suppose that if he wants to keep it fairly tight, he might play the wing-backs, which he has done a fair few times this season. He could go for a traditional 4-4-2, though, and play the wingers.

He has literally tried everything to get this team going; it is a bit of a guessing game.

What’s your score prediction for the first meeting between the teams since 2014?

I’ll go for a 2-0 win for Brentford, but if Gillingham get anything out of this, it will be absolutely brilliant and just what they need.