Leyton Orient post-match round up

[Sun Stonehouse]

Was the keepers' fault but can't help feel their defender played him into a bucket of the brown stuff.

For sure for the first but if he was out quicker he could have got there. What about the third goal, totally mad!!.

 

[Clare Spencer]

Front Page of the Football League Paper today

Will is the Star Man in our match write up

With only 3 games being played

Murphy, Wes, Mathias, Bradley & Will in the League 1 team of the day

 

[Balham Green]

Orient's Paul Terry was quite complimentary about Argyle, which was refreshing to hear, except that describing our goals as 'poor' was a bit harsh!

From a defensive point of view which is what he is concerned about, they were. 2 free headers.

 

[Cobi Budge]

Interesting to note that opposition fans keep commenting on how big and physical we are. It’s something I used to moan about a lot, AKA us being too easy to bully. Nice for it to be the other way round.

 

[Green7001]

Interesting to note that opposition fans keep commenting on how big and physical we are. It’s something I used to moan about a lot, AKA us being too easy to bully. Nice for it to be the other way round.

Agree, huge (no pun intended) change from a year ago, when we got bullied by a lot of teams.
You can build a lot of success on simply being physically strong in this league, teams that just try to play pretty football (as we did at the start of last season) very often come unstuck.

 

[Green1960]

Yes I remember Wycombe bullying our midfield last season-you have to compete physically.For me seeing Will Evans scoring rather than missing as against Burton was very important - it will give him confidence and hopefully he will push on from here.It will be interesting to see who is selected for Tuesday night .I thought Harding played much better at left back than in some of his previous appearances there but a fit Mackenzie must be challenging for that position.I expect Bakinson to replace Ibrahim against Wimbledon but Ibrahim is getting better all the time and will always energise the team from the bench.

 

[Cobi Budge]

Agree, huge (no pun intended) change from a year ago, when we got bullied by a lot of teams.
You can build a lot of success on simply being physically strong in this league, teams that just try to play pretty football (as we did at the start of last season) very often come unstuck.

Yep. You need to earn the right to play football at this level. Win your tackles. Win your headers. Run hard. Have a foundation. Then you can look to play. At this stage last season we were looking to play but without having the foundations in place first.

 

[Paul green14]

Orient's Paul Terry was quite complimentary about Argyle, which was refreshing to hear, except that describing our goals as 'poor' was a bit harsh!

Yes, Paul (John Terry's brother) praised Argyle quite a lot and rightly so !

I found the link below by chance ,
'Orient Live Debrief' , and they also praised Argyle's well organized play, dangerous
set plays , our physicality and our great,.loud away support ! Unsurprisingly, they picked out Pepple, Evans and Curtis for special
mentions.

 

[Steve Rhodes]

Every opposition fan, manger and player seems to be of the opinion that nearly every goal we've scored this season are down to their errors. They forget that we're in L1 and players make more mistakes than they do on MotD.

But Cleverley does it too and PASOTI always blames someone in our defence for any goal.we concede. My favourite was a few years back when a regular critic of Gillesphey said his defending was shocking for the third goal. He had been subbed when it was 2-0

 

[Mike Rundle]

Couple of points others have made. That superb cross from Curtis showed the value of getting the cross in early - more likely that the striker will be able to find space to get on the end of it , which is exactly what happened. Secondly, somebody commented about Mitchell's deceptive speed. I watched carefully on two occasions when he was 1 v 1 against a runner and he got there both times. He really is developing into the complete centre-half.

 

[Steve Rhodes]

Leyton Orient forum:

I think this is the clearest possible indication that when you are not emotionally invested in a team, your viewpoint is fairer and more even-handed.

 

[Paul H]

But Cleverley does it too and PASOTI always blames someone in our defence for any goal.we concede. My favourite was a few years back when a regular critic of Gillesphey said his defending was shocking for the third goal. He had been subbed when it was 2-0

You're no doubt correct, Steve. It's a failing of the modern game I think.

 

[Green Flash]

Every opposition fan, manger and player seems to be of the opinion that nearly every goal we've scored this season are down to their errors. They forget that we're in L1 and players make more mistakes than they do on MotD.

That is true of us too. Managers understandably focus on what could have been done to avoid goals from their perspective and, unless its a wonder goal, there is usually something

 

[Frank the Phone]

Couple of points others have made. That superb cross from Curtis showed the value of getting the cross in early - more likely that the striker will be able to find space to get on the end of it , which is exactly what happened. Secondly, somebody commented about Mitchell's deceptive speed. I watched carefully on two occasions when he was 1 v 1 against a runner and he got there both times. He really is developing into the complete centre-half.

Underlines the absolute importance that Curtis plays on the right.

 

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