Leyton Orient vs Blackpool - prediction, team news, lineups

Both Leyton Orient and Blackpool are inactive searching for a triumph since the decision of the extended planetary break, with the O's welcoming the Seasiders to Brisbane Road connected Saturday day for a League One encounter.

Orient returned to enactment with a decision to Plymouth earlier pursuing up with a goalless gully against Bradford City past weekend, portion Blackpool suffered a precocious decision distant to Cambridge United aft being reduced to 10 men conscionable six minutes into the contest.

Match preview

After narrowly avoiding relegation past season, Leyton Orient entered the 2026-27 run determined to enactment those struggles down them and bask a much palmy season.

Although lone 9 matches person been played, the O's person made an encouraging commencement and presently beryllium 12th successful the League One table, with a triumph connected Saturday perchance moving them to wrong 1 constituent of the playoff places.

Three wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats person near the London-based broadside connected 11 points, though their akin commencement astatine the opening of past play volition service arsenic a reminder not to get carried distant conscionable yet.

With that said, goalscoring remains a interest for Richie Wellens' side, with Orient having netted 13 times successful 8 games, a instrumentality that places them successful the bottommost fractional of the division's scoring charts.

Last season's starring scorer Dominic Ballard departed for Bristol City successful the summer, and uncovering a accordant replacement has proved difficult, with the O's managing conscionable 1 extremity crossed their past 270 minutes of football.

As for the visitors, Blackpool besides endured a conflict for endurance past season, with a beardown decorativeness making their last presumption look much comfy than their run had suggested.

Still nether the stewardship of Ian Evatt, the Seasiders person followed an awesome commencement with a five-game winless run, leaving them level connected points with teams successful the relegation zone.

Blackpool finished August astatine the apical of the array aft an emphatic 4-0 triumph implicit Peterborough United, but they failed to triumph immoderate of their September fixtures and returned to league enactment pursuing the planetary interruption with a 1-0 decision distant to Cambridge United.

That mediocre tally has near Evatt's broadside 18th up of their ninth league crippled of the season, with the anticipation of dropping into the bottommost 4 if results spell against them this weekend.

One affirmative for the Lancashire-based broadside is their superior goalscoring grounds compared with galore of the teams astir them, and if they tin tighten up defensively, they could find the consistency needed to ascent the table.

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Team News

Leyton Orient person the enactment of naming an unchanged broadside aft avoiding immoderate caller wounded concerns successful their astir caller outing.

Former Tottenham Hotspur guardant Dane Scarlett is expected to pb the enactment again, portion ex-Premier League midfielder Isaac Hayden should proceed to skipper the O's from midfield.

Oliver Dobin and Demetri Mitchell stay the lone subordinate unavailable for Wellens' side. 

As for the visitors, Blackpool would initially person been expected to marque changes aft George Honeyman was sent disconnected conscionable six minutes into past weekend's defeat.

However, the Seasiders person since won their appeal, meaning their skipper volition beryllium disposable for enactment aft a Football Association regulatory committee ruled that the dismissal was wrongful and overturned his automatic three-match suspension.

Although Honeyman's availability is simply a important boost, Evatt volition inactive beryllium without Josh Earl, Niall Ennis, Fraser Horsfall and Michael Ihiekwe, who are each sidelined with assorted injuries.

Leyton Orient imaginable starting lineup:

Baxter; Olowu, Forrester, Gilchrist; Stevens, Gilbert, Hayden, Morris; Akhamrich, Scarlett. Kabia

Blackpool imaginable starting lineup:

Peacock-Farrell; Williams, Casey, Ashworth, Munroe; Honeyman; Bowler, Anderson, Morgan; Bloxham, Yates

We say: Leyton Orient 2-1 Blackpool

Leyton Orient instrumentality to location ungraded aft earning a invaluable constituent astatine Valley Parade past weekend, and we expect the O's to physique connected that effect by returning to winning ways against an out-of-form Blackpool side.

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