Memory Lane: Morecambe v Leyton Orient.
Morecambe should have visited Brisbane Road in East London today but we all know why they didn’t. Orient were seventeenth in League Two when the Covid-19 viral outbreak out paid to any further games for the foreseeable future. They were also ten points better-off than today’s scheduled opponents (with 42), having played one game fewer. Orient are thus more or less safe in their first season back in the EFL, despite some torrid times such as the loss at home against non-league Maldon & Tiptree in the FA Cup which cost manager Carl Fletcher his job after just 29 games in charge. (The Welshman, we will remember, was in the hot seat at Plymouth Argyle for a while some time before Morecambe Manager Derek Adams’ stint there.) In all, the two clubs have only played each other five times, with the Shrimps losing the first three of them and then winning the last two. Here are accounts of some of them:
Morecambe 0:1 Leyton Orient.League Two. Saturday 24th October 2015.
Correct Toolbox at the Globe?
Jim Bentley complained last Tuesday after the victory over Crawley that not enough people were coming through the turnstiles to support Morecambe Football Club.
Too true.
But when I tried to book a ticket on-line the night before the clash with Leyton Orient, it would have been easier to get one for the Titanic. I selected `Book Tickets Online’ on the Morecambe FC website – which seemed to make some sort of sense – and then selected `Book Now’, making sure the match I had selected was against Leyton Orient.
On Saturday.
This year.
Only to find that the page at venuetoolbox.com says `This area is not available online.’
I tried all the available options only to discover that the whole of the Globe Arena is therefore not available online. Not even if I was to stand, sit or masquerade as a supporter from East London.
I may be mistaken, but I don’t think it had sold-out at the time I tried – and failed – to book: if it had, an awful lot of people failed to turn-up… (Yes, this is a facetious remark for those who might doubt it…)
Conspiracy? Coincidence?
I went onto the Toolbox website and was assured that it was THE IT SOLUTIONS YOU NEED.
Really?
Maybe you have to BE a toolbox to work for these people…
Please take note Jim…
Orient have never played Morecambe before and I personally have never seen them play previously. I once lived about a mile away from Brisbane Road at Bakers Arms and thought about watching them on a Friday night right at the end of the 1973-4 season when victory would have propelled them into the First Division (er: now the Premier League.)
But I didn’t – I could blame venuetoolbox.com for this as well but the truth is that I remained in the “Three Blackbirds” up the road, drank too much and eventually staggered back to my bedsit (with the gas heater CONVERTED TO NORTH SEA GAS) on Abbots Park Road instead.
They didn’t win – I think they lost but the Internet suggests they drew against either Millwall or Aston Villa depending on where you look (whatever, Luton and Carlisle were certainly just above them in the League and the Cumbrians went up to win their first away game next season at Chelsea.)
Did this really happen?
Yes it did but it was a different world then. It really was: venuetoolbox.com didn’t exist for a start: if it had, I would have probably have missed watching Morecambe beating a club with seriously unpleasant and violent supporters now only famous for a tunnel 2-1 in the Trophy Final at Wembley very shortly afterwards…
But back to reality. There was a relatively decent crowd to watch the visit of the Londoners on Saturday – almost twice as many as the previous Tuesday to see the Shrimps beat Crawley. On this showing, though – a lot of them will not be back again in a hurry. This was a poor game and a dreadful display by Morecambe: toothless, disjointed and technically exceedingly weak. Alex Cisak in the visitors’ goal wasn’t actually tested at all until six minutes from the end, when the home team belatedly threw the kitchen sink at him. Then, he made a fantastic save to push a shot from Aaron Wildig away for a corner. A minute later, Tom Barkhuizen should have done better when unmarked in the middle of the penalty area: his header went well wide. In injury time, Kevin Ellison failed to connect properly with a shot when spinning in the penalty area and Cisak was able to gather easily. But the Shrimps’ tepid performance all afternoon was epitomised by substitute Lee Molyneux in the eighty-eighth minute when, following a bad foul by Adam Chicksen on Shaun Beeley, he lofted a free-kick from about 35 yards straight over the bar.
From Morecambe’s point of view, that was the sum total of their efforts against a Leyton team who didn’t play a lot better. Having said that, they didn’t need to. In truth, Orient had the better chances during the game: Barry Roche managed to push a lob from Bradley Pritchard onto his own bar at full stretch after 37 minutes and was literally hit on the leg by a snap-shot by Jay Simpson which bounced harmlessly away with 64 minutes played: he clearly didn’t see it and was just lucky it hit him at all. Other than that, there was not a lot to report. Morecambe’s defence played as if they had never met before and spent a lot of the second half arguing with each other. The key moment of the match arrived after 28 minutes – and the Shrimps were culpable for it: an attempted clearance by a Morecambe defender literally hit Jack Payne and bounced off him past an astonished Roche to win Orient all three points.
Talismanic striker Shaun Miller was missing from the home team’s lineup today and normally reliable players like Barkhuizen played poorly. So Morecambe’s patchy home form returns: this was their fourth defeat in five home games. Mr Bentley needs to think about this: I paid £24 today for a cheap seat and a programme: it’s a lot of money to watch fourth-tier football and it simply wasn’t worth it…
The defeat leaves Morecambe in eighth place in League Two; the win pushed Orient up to sixth.
Morecambe: 1 Barry Roche; 2 Shaun Beeley (C); 22 Andy Parrish; 3 Aaron McGowan; 4 Alex Kenyon (27 Jack Kelleher 81mins); 6 Ryan Edwards; 7 Jamie Devitt; 13 Alan Goodall (1 Aaron Wildig 59 mins); 9 Tom Barkhuizen; 11 Kevin Ellison; 12 Paul Mullin (10 Lee Molyneux 68 mins).
Substitutes: 20 Tony Thompson; 18 Charlie Bailey; 14 Nathan Bondswell.
Leyton Orient: 1 Alex Cisak; 2 Sean Clohessy; 6 Mathieu Baudry (C); 4 Connor Essam; 20 Adam Chicksen (Y); 12 Jack Payne; 14 Sammy Moore; 18 Bradley Pritchard; 32 John Marquis (Y) (8 Lloyd James 63 mins); 27 Jay Simpson (17 Blair Turgott 87 mins) 9 Ollie Palmer.
Substitutes: 3 Frazer Shaw; 5 Alan Dunne; 19 Scott Kashket; 21 Charlie Grainger; 23 Freddy Moncur.
Ref: David Webb.
Att: 2105.
Morecambe 1:2 Leyton Orient. League Two. Saturday 3rd September 2016.
No Eastern Promise for Sorry Shrimps
As Morecambe went Brazil Nuts and said Adeus to long-standing owner and Chairman Peter McGuigan and Bem Vindo to Brazilian `businessman` Diego Lemos this week, life continued as usual on the field as the Top of the Table Shrimps hosted visitors from the less than exotic Orient of the Leyton Eastenders variety in Saturday at the Globe Arena.
The local BBC news compared this venue unkindly with the Maracana Stadium in Rio in its Friday night bulletin. And the beach at Morecambe isn`t the Copacabana either, is it? Ha ha ha – very funny. The people who staff a Salford newsroom in the shadow of the millionaires across the way at Manchester United`s Old Trafford might think that the struggles of small clubs right across the region – be they Bury, Fleetwood, Rochdale or the Shrimps themselves – to actually survive, let alone prosper are things to be made fun of and scoffed at but for real football supporters at the grassroots, life`s priorities are somewhat different.
On the field, Jim Bentley put this week`s latest loan signings – forward Ntumba Massanka from Burnley and Cheltenham`s left-back James Jennings – straight onto the bench. Tenth-placed Orient brought an unbeaten away league record with them and Manager Andy Hessenthaler paid tribute to opposite number Jim Bentley before the match as `a good man who knows what he`s doing`. The omens for the O`s were not bad before a ball was kicked: Orient had a perfect record against the Shrimps before the match, having won both of their two previous encounters by the only goal of each game last season.
The game started on a heavy pitch with the rain which had fallen all day barely relenting for an instant during the entire contest. The hosts had the first chance after nine minutes when good approach play finished with Cole Stockton one-on-one with the O`s keeper Alex Cisak but the centre forward`s shot went just wide of the post. Ten minutes later, the goalkeeper was called on again to make an excellent save from Kevin Ellison. Morecambe weren`t having things all their own way though with the visitors using their wingers to good effect and the Londoners took the lead after 28 minutes when an unchallenged Liam Kelly let fly from 25 yards and found the bottom of the net low to Roche`s left. The rest of a scrappy half petered out in the rain with the visitors ahead but Orient had the first chance of the second half when Robbie Weir`s shot following a well-worked free-kick routine was palmed away by Roche after just a couple of minutes. Almost immediately afterwards though, Kevin Ellison took advantage of the confusion Jack Dunn was causing in the visitors` defence to reduce the arrears with a rare right-footed shot from all of 20 yards which whistled past Cisak to his left straight into the back of the Orient net. But the Londoners were soon attacking again and Jordan Bowery had a shot which Roche saved well after 52 minutes. The Irishman was blameless just three minutes later though when another Bowery shot hit Alex Whitmore and deflected cruelly past a wrong-footed goalkeeper to put the visitors back in front once more. Orient were well on top by this time and the Morecambe goalkeeper was called upon to prevent them going even further ahead on several occasions, most notably when he saved with his feet after 72 minutes to deny Bowery a brace and a second goal for his club. Both sides had half-chances towards the end of the game but at the end of it, the visitors had deservedly preserved their 100% record against Morecambe and went home with all the points again. The win pushed the O`s into the lowest of the play-off positions in League Two; the Shrimps slipped to second behind Eric Morecambe`s favourites Luton Town.
Morecambe: 1 Barry Roche; 2 Liam Wakefield; 3 Aaron McGowan; 5 Ryan Edwards; 9 Tom Barkhuizen; 11 Kevin Ellison (Y); 16 Alex Whitmore; 17 Andy Fleming (4 Alex Kenyon 60 mins); 20 Jack Dunn (18 Rhys Turner 60 mins); 23 Cole Stockton (7 Paul Mullin 87 mins); 24 Michael Rose(C) (Y).
Subs not used: 12 Dan Nizic; 10 Lee Molyneux; 19 Ntumba Massanka; 21 James Jennings.
Leyton Orient: 1 Alex Cisak; 3 Callum Kennedy; 4 Liam Kelly; 6 Tom Parkes; 8 Robbie Weir (C); 10 Paul McCallum; 11 Gavin Massey; 16 Nicky Hunt; 20 Harry Cornick; 21 Jordan Bowery (Y); 37 Yvan Erichot.
Subs not used: 24 Sam Sergeant; 9 Ollie Palmer; 18 Ulrich Nnomo; 22 Sandro Semedo; 25 Aron Pollock; 28 Josh Koroma; 29 Myles Judd.
Ref: John Brooks
Attendance: 1665 (227 from Orient)
Leyton Orient 0:1 Morecambe. League Two. Tuesday 7th February 2017.
From Reality Show to Grim Reality for O’s.
Morecambe travelled to Leyton Orient on Tuesday evening to fulfil the fixture which was postponed on 21st January due to a frozen pitch. They were also looking to avenge their home defeat to the `O`s` last September and try to reverse their fortunes against the real-life East Enders, against whom they have lost every previous encounter they have ever contested – all three of them so far. Morecambe have well-documented and serious problems off the field with what has been described as an `Italian American businessman` – in the shape of Joseph Cala – apparently poised to take over the club. Brisbane Road, however – where another Italian has been in charge in recent times – is not a place where lots of happy bunnies can be found at the moment either. What might be politely described as `colourful` owner Francesco Becchetti announced during January that he was putting the club up for sale (Shrimps supporters can tell him at least one other foreign `businessman` who he should not sell it to in any circumstances) after bossing a regime which has seen ten managerial changes during the two years he has been in charge. His other contributions to the club`s fortunes – such as hosting a Reality TV show on Albanian telly (on which Italian footballers looking to progress or re-start their careers were competing for an Orient contract) and forcing the squad to train even though the season had ended because they had been relegated from League One – have not had any obvious success. His relationship with the Managers he has appointed has been worthy of a Soap Opera – as opposed to a Reality TV show – on its own. He was fined £40,000 by the FA and banned from Brisbane Road for six games after aiming a kick at assistant Manager Andy Hessenthaler: a cringeworthy incident as far as `O`s` fans are concerned which has been recorded for everyone to see forever on YouTube. One of his appointees (fellow Italian Alberto Cavasin) was sacked last November having been appointed only seven weeks earlier after having been out of work for five years and dutifully going on to lose eight of the ten league games for which he was in charge: so in a sense, he was kicked out as well. Recent incumbent Andy Edwards was sacked just a week ago to be replaced by Danny Webb whose thankless task is to improve Orient`s dire fortunes. His team started tonight`s game against the Shrimps having lost all of their fixtures – five EFL games – during 2017. Given the on-going and widespread clear-out of even their better players – notably Jay Simpson, Andy Dunne and Jordan Bowery in recent times – this is probably not too surprising. So Morecambe`s chances against a team six places lower at twenty-third and thus a relegation position in the League and a whole seven points behind them having played two games more before kick-off have probably never been better.
After a brisk opening from both sides, the visitors had the first decent chance when Kevin Ellison`s volley was blocked by Myles Judd and then cleared eventually for a corner by the `O`s` defence after eleven minutes. With Orient looking perhaps the most fluent of the two teams, the Shrimps had another chance from a Michael Rose free-kick five yards in from the left touchline after 22 minutes but Paul Mullin`s resultant effort ended up on the roof of the Brisbane Road North Stand. Peter Murphy had the ball in the Leyton net after home custodian Sam Sargeant spilled the ball with half an hour played but the referee ruled out a goal for a foul on the goalkeeper. With the home team still playing the more progressive football, Orient had the best chance of the half so far after 36 minutes when – following excellent approach play – Gavin Massey drew a good save from Barry Roche at the expense of a corner from which Tom Parkes eventually unleashed a volley when unmarked which went just wide of the post – he probably should have done better. The Shrimps` goalkeeper almost blotted his copybook from Orient`s next corner, which he dropped almost at Sam Dalby`s feet but the huge Irishman did well to recover and set the visiting team in motion to go straight down the other end where his opposite number caught Mullin`s header relatively easily. With four minutes still scheduled to play in the first half, Aaron Wildig cleverly set-up Ellison for another shot which was well blocked this time by Yvan Erichot. The teams went in all-square but the home team probably had the upper hand on the overall balance of play.
Morecambe started the second half as they had the opening one with the first good chance after forty-eight minutes. Ellison made good progress down the Shrimps` left-wing and slung over a peach of a cross which Wildig looped only marginally too high over the bar from the penalty spot with his head. Three minutes later, the visitors had another chance but Lee Molyneux blasted a free-kick way over the Leyton crossbar from just outside the penalty area. The hosts had a few half-chances after this but the next serious strike on goal came from Molyneux, whose shot after 62 minutes was well saved low down to Sargeant`s right. The home goalie did even better just a minute later to deny Ellison when the Shrimps` forward was played-in for the best chance for the visitors so far. Mullin did well to dispossess an opponent after 69 minutes only for substitute Rhys Turner to waste a golden opportunity to put Morecambe ahead as he poked the cross from the Shrimps` Number Seven just over the bar. As the visitors stepped-up the pressure, Judd came to the rescue with a brilliant block just a minute later to prevent what looked like a certain goal for Wildig. But Mullin got his reward for a committed evening`s work after 72 minutes, sweeping the ball past Sargeant from outside the area with a tremendous left-foot shot right up into the corner of the net to put the Lancashire club one-nil up on the night. The visitors kept up the pressure and Ellison tried his luck from a free-kick after 77 minutes which curled just over the bar and the game ended with the visitors virtually untroubled by a team which find themselves in real trouble at the wrong end of League Two. Orient have now lost all six of the games they have played this year and must realistically fear the drop into the obscurity of the National League at the end of the season. For Morecambe, this was their sixth unbeaten game on the spin and Jim Bentley must be delighted that – despite all the crippling troubles off the field – he and his players not only were actually paid today but also took all three League points back to the seaside with them tonight.
Leyton Orient: 24 Sam Sargeant; 29 Myles Judd; 37 Yvan Erichot; 6 Tom Parkes; 16 Nicky Hunt (C); 11 Gavin Massey; 15 Nigel Atangana; 7 Michael Collins (Y); 22 Sandro Samedo (Y); 16 Victor Adeboyejo; 30 Sam Dalby (20 Rowan Liburd 77 mins).
Subs not used: 12 Charlie Grainger; 34 Michael Clark; 19 Teddy Mezague; 14 Sammy Moore; 4 Liam Kelly; 28 Josh Koroma.
Morecambe: 1 Barry Roche; 5 Ryan Edwards; 6 Dean Winnard; 16 Alex Whitmore; 8 Peter Murphy; 15 Aaron Wildig (72 mins); 24 Michael Rose (C) (4 Alex Kenyon 75 mins); 7 Paul Mullin (Y)(3 Aaron McGowan (Y) 81 mins); 10 Lee Molyneux (18 Rhys Turner 65 mins); 11 Kevin Ellison; 19 Michael Duckworth.
Subs not used: 12 Danijel Nizic; 2 Liam Wakefield; 14 Luke Conlan; 21 Antony Evans.
Ref: John Brooks
2660 (58 from Morecambe)
Morecambe 1:0 Leyton Orient. Skybet EFL League Two, Saturday 2nd November 2019.
New Era – New Experience…
It’s been a turbulent week again at Morecambe Football Club. On the field, the team lost quite tamely to relegation rivals Stevenage to drop to the very bottom of the EFL last Saturday. Off the field, the longest-serving Manager in the Football League, Jim Bentley, decided that the time had come to cut his seventeen and a half year association with the club. Who can blame him? In his first interview as the new AFC Fylde Manager, Jim said the following about the way his position at the helm of the club had been undermined by one of the club’s owners:
“I’ve found myself really frustrated over the last twelve, eighteen months. I’ve always respected; been honest and had a good working relationship with the people who run the football club. That’s not been the case over the last twelve month or so… The final thing for me was the Facebook situation where the owner, Colin Goldring, actually voted for me to be sacked… Once that respect’s gone… I feel like (the) time has come for me to move on.”
Subsequently, Mr Goldring has denied taking part in the Facebook vote but the details of his denial are frankly not credible. No wonder Jim left. He leaves a huge hole which is being filled – in the short-term at least – by veterans Club Captain Barry Roche and Kevin Ellison. Given that assistant Manager Ken McKenna and goalkeeping coach Lee Jones went with Jimbo to work at Fylde, journalism graduate Baz would probably have found himself having to take up the role as Jones’ replacement at the very least. Now he’s in the hot seat with Kev, who has been progressing with his Coaching Badges during the last few years at the club. They face a daunting task, particularly as neither of them have any experience of managing a football team at any level. That doesn’t mean that they won’t succeed, though: Jim Bentley himself had only brief Reserve Team managerial experience before he took the job all of eight long years ago after all. So, untested or not, I’m sure all Shrimps’ supporters wish them both the very best of luck.
The rookie duo’s first test arrived in the shape of Leyton Orient, for whom it was only new boss Carl Fletcher’s second game in charge. Orient – recently returned from the National League which threatens to engulf Morecambe – were sixteenth in the League Two table before the game and arrived on the back of three wins, one draw and a single defeat in their last five league fixtures. The Shrimps, on the other hand, had lost four and won just one of their previous five league games. In previous encounters, Morecambe’s record against the Londoners is pretty dire: in four meetings, they have lost three and won just one.
Before the game, Kevin Ellison made it clear that both himself and Barry Roche still wanted to play for Morecambe. Today, though, Baz dropped himself to the substitutes’ bench and Kev was left out of the squad altogether. Here they are in their newly-discovered voyage `to the Dark Side’ – as Mr Roche once characterised former team-mate’s Jim Bentley’s transformation to a coach.
For the visitors, Conor Wilkinson returned to the bench but both Sam Ling and Myles Judd were unavailable due to injury.
Confounding the dire weather forecast, it was dry and actually quite sunny at times in North Lancashire on Saturday morning. However, the skies clouded over as the day progressed and it was drizzling heavily by the time the game kicked-off. There was an immaculately-respected one minute’s silence before the game to remember the fallen of two world wars and other conflicts.
But once the match started – in front of a commendably large number of supporters from London’s East Ten – the Shrimps went onto the front foot from the off – and stayed on it. Dean Brill’s head seemed to be still in the dressing room as John O’Sullivan bore down on him in the first minute and he was lucky to get away with a belated clearance. Six minutes were on the clock when Andrew Tutte shot from all of twenty-five yards to see his effort deflected low down to just scrape past Brill’s left-hand post at the cost of a corner. Morecambe forced a number of further corners but the nearest they came to making a break-through from them was when Steven Old headed into the ground after ten minutes or so. Tutte tried his luck again after eighteen minutes and Brill did well to shovel the shot over the bar. Left-Back Luke Conlan suffered altitude sickness after twenty -four minutes when he almost danced his way right through the visitor’s defence only to lose the ball at the crucial moment. Thirty-three minutes had been played when Morecambe came the closest they did all half to breaking the deadlock: a low cross from the left went right across the Leyton goalmouth but nobody was able to put the finishing touch to it: Lewis Allesandra’s belated connection went wide. Another diagonal cross from the Morecambe left also went unconverted with about ten minutes of the first half still to play. So the first period ended scoreless with the Shrimps well on top. Orient had stood-off most of the game and lacked penetration on the rare moments they got into the host’s half. The truth of the matter was that Mark Halstead in the home goal had nothing to do throughout the opening period and Orient didn’t even force a single corner kick. The only shot they had at goal was when James Dayton shot wildly way over the bar after 34 minutes.
This all changed within moments of the second half. It would seem that words had been said in the Orient Dressing Room because the team in the white strip came out and immediately started to play at a faster tempo whilst compressing the play. Halstead had more to do in the first two minutes of the re-start than he had in the whole of the contest so far. He powerfully punched away corners from left and right and for the first ten minutes, the Shrimps were very much on the back foot. But they could have taken the lead when a complacent Brill allowed a cross which he clearly expected to go into touch to come off Cole Stockton’s back instead to stay in play as the Morecambe forward got behind him: it could have gone anywhere. But with fifty-seven minutes played, the hosts had the next best chance to open the scoring and only two excellent blocks by the Leyton defence kept them out. Things could have changed after an hour when Tutte spoiled a rare half-decent performance with an appalling foul on Craig Clay; late; high and totally unnecessary. He was lucky to escape with just a yellow card in my opinion. Morecambe were having more of the play again by this time but wasted promising possession at times by continually passing sideways or backwards when attempts on goal could have proved far more productive. 65 minutes had been played when George Marsh sent over what was probably supposed to be a cross from the O’s right: it dipped only just over the Morecambe bar. A minute later, a desperately backpedalling visiting central defender misconnected with a ball coming over his head to set-up Cole Stockton for an instant shot which went just wide of Brill’s right-hand post. A-Jay Leitch-Smith replaced Cole shortly afterwards and his first contribution to the match turned-out to be decisive. As the visiting goalkeeper loudly encouraged his defenders to “Stop the Crosses!” as Morecambe probed down the Orient right, A-Jay collected the ball and slung over a fantastic shot which spun over Brill into his top left-hand corner. It was a fantastic strike from one of the Shrimps’ undoubtedly class acts. From this moment on, Leyton tried to chase the game only to be frequently caught on the break. At times, they looked utterly panic-stricken at the back but they also had opportunities to equalise. After 78 minutes, Halstead produced a tremendous reaction save to keep Dan Happe’s shot from point-blank range out. He also came to his team’s rescue with almost the last kick of the match: diving full-length to his left to push a low shot following a James Brophy cross away for a corner. But at the end of the day, the points were Morecambe’s – and deservedly so.
One Swallow does not make a Summer but this very first win at the Globe Arena this season was well-deserved and came as a result of some intelligent and creative play at times. With Stevenage drawing at fellow-strugglers Scunthorpe, Morecambe remain bottom of the EFL on goal difference alone tonight. It’s too early to talk about the green shoots of recovery but if the Shrimps continue to perform to this standard, they can still expect to be in the EFL next season. Despite the loss, the O’s remained in sixteenth position.
Twenty-odd miles away to the south, Jim Bentley oversaw his new team’s second draw in a row to see AFC Fylde in twentieth position in the National League and thus out of the relegation positions tonight. So everyone associated with Morecambe FC were happy this evening. There was even a double-page picture of this Shrimps legend in today’s match programme – and well deserved too.
Morecambe: 21 Mark Halstead; 3 Luke Conlan; 27 George Tanner; 16 Sam Lavelle (C); 5 Steven Old; 6 Andrew Tutte (Y) (33 Jordan Cranston 64’); 14 Tom Brewitt; 15 Aaron Wildig (Y) (4 Alex Kenyon 84’); 7 John O’Sullivan; 8 Lewis Alessandra (Y); 9 Cole Stockton (10 A-Jay Leitch-Smith 73’).
Subs not used: 1 Barry Roche; 24 Shaun Miller; 23 Tyler Brownsword; 2 Adam Buxton.
Leyton Orient: 1 Dean Brill; 5 Marvin Ekpiteta (4 Dale Gorman 60’); 3 Joe Widdowson; 6 Josh Coulson (C); 8 Craig Clay; 11 James Dayton (Conor Wilkinson 60’ then 10 Jordan Maguire-Drew 75’); 15 Dan Happe (Y); 16 James Brophy; 18 Matt Harrold; 21 George Marsh;44 Josh Wright.
Subs not used: 12 Sam Sargeant; 17 Louis Dennis; 23 Jamie Turley; 27 James Alabi.
Ref: Paul Marsden. 2691 (353)
