The form guide suggests Peterborough United have a great chance of victory at Leyton Orient
Leyton Orient will aim to win back-to-back League One games for the first time this season when they tackle Peterborough United at the BetWright Stadium.
The Os claimed an excellent 2-1 win at play-off chasing Stevenage on Tuesday night, a result that lifted them out of the bottom four. It’s been a trying season on the whole for the Londoners after reaching the League One play-off final last season.
Orient have won six and lost six of their 17 League One home games this season, but they’ve lost their last three to Plymouth, bottom club Port Vale and Barnsley.
The win at Stevenage was just the second in the last nine League One games. Orient are only a point and two places outside the relegation zone ahead of facing Posh.
DANGERMEN
Striker Dom Ballard is having a standout season with 18 goals in just 29 League One appearances for a club that has struggled for most of the season. He is now the top scorer in League One after his two goals at Stevenage earlier this week.
He had formed a strong strike partnership with Aaron Connolly who had eight goals in 18 appearances before picking up a bad quad injury in a heavy FA Cup defeat at Salford City early in December. The former Brighton player is due back in action soon.
Midfielder Ollie O’Neill has been in good form lately.
PAST MATCHES
The 2014 League One play-off semi-final second leg is the most famous clash between these two teams in East London. Orient won that game 2-1 to advance to Wembley where they lost to Steve Evans’ Rotherham United. Orient haven’t beaten Posh at Brisbane Road since that game.
In the Football League it’s a 7-7 draw in 18 matches at this venue. It finished 2-2 last season and 2-1 to Posh the season before when Hector Kyprianou scored against his old club and Ephron Mason-Clark also netted.
Aaron Mclean, during his second spell at Posh, and Erhun Oztumer scored in a 2-1 win in 2014 and, in the same season as the play-off contest, Britt Assombalonga and Tommy Rowe netted in the final three minutes to give Posh another 2-1 win.
Orient’s last win in this fixture arrived in the Posh promotion season of 2010-11. Orient hit a 90th-minute winner after Nat Mendez-Laing had equalised a Gaby Zakuani own goal. Zakuani was a former Orient player.
MAN IN THE MIDDLE
Former Premier League referee Bobby Madley is the referee for Orient v Posh. He was sacked from the top-flight in 2018 after some injudicious words on a video.
Madley is working his way back up the divisions, but has been hampered by injuries. He left his last appearance in a Posh game at half-time, a 3-3 draw with Bolton towards the end of the 2023-24 season.
BIG MATCH ODDS
Posh are 21-10 to win on Saturday with the hosts at 21-20 with Sky Bet who have the draw priced at 12-5. Orient are 11-4 to be relegated. Posh are currently 50-1 to go down.