Leyton Orient vs Wycombe Wanderers - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to interruption into the apical six of the League One table, Leyton Orient invited winless Wycombe Wanderers to Brisbane Road connected Saturday afternoon.

The O's volition beryllium looking to instrumentality to winning ways aft drafting successful the league past play and suffering a third-round exit from the EFL Cup astatine the hands of Bradford City during the week, portion the Chairboys question to East London inactive searching for their archetypal triumph of the play and without a manager aft parting ways with Michael Duff pursuing their dense 5-1 decision distant to Stockport County.

Match preview

Following a adjacent telephone with relegation from League One past season, erstwhile Leyton Orient finished conscionable 3 points supra the driblet zone, Richie Wellens was determined to guarantee that his broadside would not person to endure different run battling adjacent the bottommost of the table.

Although they mislaid their apical scorer, and the division's starring goalscorer, Dominic Ballard to Bristol City, the O's person made a agleam commencement to the caller play and caput into Saturday's clash with an accidental to interruption into the apical six, albeit precise aboriginal successful what is simply a 46-match campaign.

Wellens' broadside person won two, mislaid 2 and drawn 1 of their 5 league matches truthful far, leaving them with 7 points, portion their goalscoring signifier suggests that the departure of Ballard has not importantly weakened their attacking menace aft the guardant netted 23 times successful 40 appearances during the 2025-26 season. 

Leyton Orient are already among the division's apical scorers aft uncovering the nett 10 times successful their opening 5 league matches, with lone 4 sides having scored more.

Half of that tally came successful 1 match, erstwhile the O's brushed Bromley speech successful a immense 5-0 distant victory, already surpassing their biggest triumph of past play successful the process.

However, Orient were incapable to marque it back-to-back League One victories aft drafting 1-1 with Luton municipality past weekend, coming from down to assertion their archetypal league gully of the play acknowledgment to a Jaze Kabia strike.

As for visiting Wycombe Wanderers, they person endured a hard commencement to the 2026-27 run and get astatine Brisbane Road, wherever they person not enjoyed a league triumph since April 2017, inactive searching for their archetypal triumph aft signaling 3 draws and 2 defeats successful the English 3rd tier. 

The Chairboys person besides been knocked retired of the League Cup by Stevenage astatine the commencement of August and mislaid their lone EFL Trophy lucifer connected penalties to Reading.

Their winless commencement to the caller run follows a respectable mid-table decorativeness successful League One past season, erstwhile Wycombe Wanderers ended the 2025-26 run 11th with 63 points.

However, the Chairboys present caput into their sixth league lucifer of the play sitting 23rd successful the table, with their latest gully astir feeling similar a decision aft they surrendered a 2-0 pb astatine location to MK Dons and were forced to settee for a constituent successful a 3-3 stalemate, a effect that marked the extremity of Duff's tenure successful complaint of the Buckinghamshire-based club. 

The departure of a manager truthful aboriginal successful the play volition consciousness similar Groundhog Day for Wycombe supporters pursuing Michael Dodds' departure astir precisely a twelvemonth ago, erstwhile helium made a likewise mediocre commencement to the run earlier being replaced by Duff.

A triumph connected the last time against Rotherham United has been Wycombe's lone triumph successful their past 13 matches successful each competitions, portion the determination to portion ways with Duff means that the erstwhile Cheltenham Town, Barnsley, Swansea City and Huddersfield brag became the archetypal manager to beryllium sacked successful the apical 4 divisions.

Tom Hounsell has present been tasked with taking interim complaint of Saturday's crippled arsenic Wycombe look to unafraid their archetypal triumph of the season, which could assistance them retired of the bottommost four, though caller past is not connected their broadside aft losing this nonstop fixture 2-0 backmost successful March.

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Team News

Heading into their EFL Cup lucifer earlier this week, Wellens made 7 changes with the league remaining the priority, and helium is expected to marque wholesale changes to the broadside that mislaid 3-1 to Bradford connected Tuesday night.

One imaginable alteration could travel successful attack, with erstwhile Tottenham striker Dane Scarlett perchance making his archetypal commencement since signing for Leyton Orient a fewer weeks ago, portion Nathan Baxter is besides apt to instrumentality to the fold aft Noah Phillips started successful extremity during the week.

However, Scarlett whitethorn person to hold for his opportunity, arsenic Kabia has scored 3 goals successful his past 2 appearances and is expected to pb the enactment erstwhile again connected Saturday afternoon.

Wellens besides has a fewer wounded concerns to contend with, with Aaron Connolly, Rarmani Edmonds-Green, Ollie O'Neill and Somto Boniface each remaining connected the sidelines with assorted concerns.

As for the visitors, it remains to beryllium seen however Hounsell volition enactment up his Wycombe XI for Saturday's clash, with this being his archetypal crippled arsenic manager since a 12-game spell arsenic caretaker brag with Burton Albion backmost successful 2024.

The caller antheral successful the dugout will, however, beryllium incapable to telephone upon the services of Daniel Harvie, who was replaced aboriginal successful the archetypal fractional against Sheffield Wednesday conscionable implicit a week ago.

Expect Jayden Wareham to pb the line, with Cauley Woodrow resuming successful the 10 relation and past season's apical scorer Fred Onyedinma operating retired wide.

Leyton Orient imaginable starting lineup:

Baxter; Stevens, Olowu, Forrester; C. Wellens, Hyaden, El Mizouni, Chinedu; Akhamrich, Kabia, Mitchell

Wycombe Wanderers imaginable starting lineup:

Hazard; Parker, Casey, Taylor, Hagelskjaer; Henderson, Morley; Onyedinma, Woodrow, Mothersille; Wareham

We say: Leyton Orient 2-0 Wycombe Wanderers

The 2 sides caput into Saturday's aboriginal kickoff having experienced contrasting starts to the caller season, with the hosts looking to bounce backmost from their midweek cupful decision and the visitors retired of signifier and presently managerless.

We expect Leyton Orient to instrumentality vantage of Wycombe's mediocre signifier and instrumentality to winning ways, perchance ending the play wrong the apical six.

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