Preview: Leyton Orient vs. Cambridge United - prediction, team news, lineups

Leyton Orient volition big Cambridge United astatine Brisbane Road connected Sunday, anxious to proceed their awesome tally and enactment themselves firmly successful the League One playoff race.

Meanwhile, the visitors get astatine Brisbane Road with the purpose of ending a winless streak, and expanding their chances of climbing retired of the relegation zone.

Match preview

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Leyton Orient are presently connected a scintillating tally of form, losing conscionable 1 of their past 12 matches crossed each competitions, an awesome play that has seen them triumph 8 games, including victories successful some the FA Cup and the Football League Trophy.

This momentum has translated into a superb streak successful League One, with the Os unbeaten successful their past 5 matches, signaling 4 wins and a gully to ascent to a respectable spot successful the table.

Their antiaircraft solidity is peculiarly impressive, having kept a cleanable expanse streak stretching crossed the 5 matches, particularly considering they person scored 12 goals successful those matches, portion besides conceding successful conscionable 1 of their past 8 league matches.

Their caller 3-0 triumph implicit Crawley Town, with goals from Charlie Kelman, Dan Agyei and Omar Beckles, further showcased their new-found attacking prowess.

As they hole to big a struggling side, assurance is high, particularly considering their ascendant grounds against this hostile past season, winning some fixtures with a cleanable expanse and scoring 4 goals.

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In contrast, Cambridge United are experiencing a hard season, winless successful their past 3 League One matches, though 1 of those games was an awesome 2-2 gully with Wrexham.

Since the draw, Cambridge person mislaid 4-0 to Huddersfield Town and 2-1 against Charlton Athletic, leaving them with conscionable 1 triumph successful their past 9 games.

This mediocre tally has near them successful the relegation zone, with lone 17 points from 21 matches, 4 points adrift of safety, with their distant grounds peculiarly concerning, having picked up conscionable 5 points from 11 matches connected the road, highlighting the daunting situation they look against an in-form big connected Sunday.

However, Garry Monk's broadside tin gully inspiration from their past triumph successful this fixture which came astatine Brisbane Road, and their gully distant astatine Wrexham, which besides provides a glimmer of anticipation that they tin vie against apical sides.

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Team News

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Leyton Orient are apt to tract an unchanged broadside for the 3rd consecutive match, fixed their caller success.

Beckles, a stalwart of the defence, and Kelman, the team's starring scorer with six league goals, volition some beryllium anxious to proceed their awesome signifier of scoring by uncovering the nett for a 3rd consecutive game.

Cambridge United caput into this clash with James Gibbons, Paul Digby and Mamadou Jobe each ruled retired owed to injury.

Liam Bennett was relegated to the seat successful the erstwhile lucifer erstwhile manager Monk switched to a backmost four, but with the manager expected to revert to a backmost 3 for this encounter, Bennett could beryllium reinstated successful the starting lineup.

Leyton Orient imaginable starting lineup:
Keely; Galbraith, Beckles, Happe, Currie; Pratley, Brown; Agyei, Donley, O'Neill; Kelman

We say: Leyton Orient 2-0 Cambridge United

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