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Leyton Orient preview

17 April 2014

Match Previews

Leyton Orient preview

17 April 2014

Your look-ahead to the Good Friday action

Reds host Leyton Orient on Good Friday, looking to complete a SkyBet League One double over Russell Slade's promotion chasers.


MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Mick Russell Assistants: William Bull and Paul Kelly Fourth Official: Charles Breakspear


TEAM NEWS

Billy Clarke (broken hand) misses out for Reds and Paul Connolly serves the second match of his five-match suspension.

Orient have no fresh injury worries following last Saturday's 5-1 win over Gillingham.


VIEW FROM INSIDE THE CAMP

John Gregory: "It's a game we're really looking forward to. Orient have had a fantastic season and they will come at us because if they want second place they need to keep winning. It should be an open encounter in front of a good crowd and we'll go into it with plenty of confidence."


Dean Cox (Leyton Orient midfielder): "Brentford losing last Saturday makes it a little bit interesting. Hopefully there will be a little bit of squeaky bum time for our rivals. There’s still half a chance (of automatic promotion) and you never say never in this game. If it’s going to be the play-offs we want to keep this momentum going. The Easter period is very important. It’s not a very good pitch down at Crawley, but we’ll go there looking for three points.”

 


WE'VE MET BEFORE

All three previous meetings have been won by Crawley. Last season Reds defeated the O's 1-0 home (Nicky Ajose) and away (Billy Clarke) while at the Matchroom Stadium last December goals from Gary Alexander, Andy Drury and Nicky Adams sealed a 3-2 win, John Gregory's first since he became our manager.


FORM GUIDE

Reds have won their last two. Last week's win was Orient's second in their last seven games.


GOING TO THE MATCH?

We're expecting a big crowd for this game and the advice is to buy your tickets in advance. All the details can be found here.


FANCY A FLUTTER?

Reds are 21/10 with League sponsors SkyBet to win with the same odds available for the draw. Leyton Orient are 11/8. Andy Drury to score first in a 2-1 Crawley win is available at a tasty 80-1. For all the odds click here.


MATCH COVERAGE

You can follow the game with live and exclusive commentary on Reds Player. To subscribe or listen to the game click here.

We will be running our live blog on The Reds Wall throughout the game and you can react to the action.

There are also live updates through the club's Twitter feed and the latest news on our Facebook page as well.

There is live commentary on BBC Surrey on 104-104.6 FM


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