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Final Score: Leyton Orient 2 Albion 1

Posted on: Sat 07 Mar 2009

GOAL FLASHES

17: GOAL! Two of Albion's five debutants combined to open the scoring. Lloyd Owusu beat home keeper Jamie Jones to Tommy Fraser's free-kick and Matt Heath, inside the six-yard box, forced the ball home at the second attempt.

45: GOAL! Scott McGleish scores from the spot after Heath was adjudged to have fouled Orient's on-loan Reading striker Simon Church.

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88: GOAL! Sean Thornton curls the ball past Andersen from the edge of the area to put Orient ahead.

Final Score: Orient 2 Albion 1

TEAM NEWS

All five of Albion's new loan signings make their debuts. Mikkel Andersen has the gloves, Matt Heath forms the central defensive partnership with captain-for-the-day Adam El-Abd, while Gary Borrowdale fills the left-back berth.

Al Bangura partners Jason Jarrett in the centre of midfield, with Tom Fraser sliding out to the right. Finally, Lloyd Owusu spearheads the attack with Craig Davies.

Kevin McLeod  will start on the left of midfield, while Sam Gargan continues on the bench alongside Adam Hinshelwood.

For Orient, manager Kevin Nugent makes two changes from the side that lost at home to Peterborough in midwek. JJ Melligan and Charlie Daniels return for Jimmy Smith and Andrew Cave-Brown respectively. Former Albion loan striker Wayne Gray is on the bench for the O's.

Albion: (4-4-2) Andersen; Whing, Heath, El-Abd, Borrowdale; Fraser (Livermore 61), Jarrett, Bangura, McLeod (Carole 56); Davies, Owusu. Subs not used: Sullivan (GK), Gargan, Hinshelwood.

Orient: (4-4-2) Jones; Purches, Mkandawire, Spence, Daniels; Melligan (Gray 58), Chambers, Thornton, Demetriou (Morgan 70); McGleish, Church. Subs not used: Morris (GK), Saah, Terry.

Attendance: 5885 (1915 Albion)

Referee: Richard Beeby

Yellow Cards: Chambers, Spence (Orient); Jarrett, Bangura, Whing, Owusu (Albion)

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