Leyton Orient vs Shrewsbury Town Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Leyton Orient

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Leyton Orient go into this game following on from a 2-2 EFL Trophy tied result against Fulham PL2.

For Leyton Orient, the goalscorers were Ethan Galbraith (9') and Idris El Mizouni (96'). Kristian Šekularac (45') and Ollie O'Neill (60') scored for Fulham PL2. Leyton Orient won the match 5-4 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

Richie Wellens's Leyton Orient have found the net 6 times over their prior six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that they have conceded in that same time amounts to 7.

Coming into this contest, Leyton Orient have not been beaten in the league by Shrewsbury Town in their last 5 games.

Shrewsbury Town

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Previously, Shrewsbury Town drew 0-0 in the EFL Trophy match with Brighton U23s.

Shrewsbury Town ran out winners after a 4-1 penalty shootout.

The forward players for Shrewsbury Town have failed to get amongst the goals over their previous six encounters, netting the disappointing return of just 3. In those fixtures, The Shrews have also seen the overall goal tally against them equal 9. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that trend might be maintained in this game.

Coming into this contest, Shrewsbury Town are winless against Leyton Orient when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 29/08/2005 tells us that Leyton Orient have won 4 of them and Shrewsbury Town 1, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

An aggregate of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 12 of them from The O's and 5 created by The Shrews. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league contest between these sides was League One match day 25 on 07/01/2014 when it ended Shrewsbury Town 0-2 Leyton Orient.

The match was refereed by Scott Mathieson.

🗞️ Team News: Leyton Orient

The Leyton Orient manager Richie Wellens has a full complement, with no fitness concerns at all ahead of this match owing to a fully injury-free squad available to select from.

It’s our opinion that The O's may well use the 3-4-3 system for this one, handing starts to Solomon Brynn, Tom James, Omar Beckles, Brandon Cooper, Jordan Graham, Darren Pratley, Idris El Mizouni, Theo Archibald, George Moncur, Joe Pigott and Ruel Sotiriou.

📋 Team News: Shrewsbury Town

Thanks to a fully healthy group to pick from, the Shrewsbury Town manager Matt Taylor doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash.

From our viewpoint, The Shrews seem likely to play in a 3-4-1-2 formation, going with Marko Marosi, Morgan Feeney, Cheyenne Dunkley, Tom Flanagan, Elliott Bennett, Malvind Benning, Taylor Perry, Nohan Kenneh, Daniel Udoh, Carl Winchester and Max Mata.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Shrewsbury Town might need a bit of good fortune to register a score against this Leyton Orient lineup who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

That’s why we have predicted a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 winning score for Leyton Orient at the end of this game.

Let’s see what happens.

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Peter Guest, 00:58 19/09/2023