Leggi Looks At: Orient

Leggi Looks At: Orient

Orient travel from their Matchroom Stadium to Portman Road for the first time in 20 years on Tuesday night, aiming to stop Town's progression in this seasons League Cup. Martin Ling's side ended 14th in last season's Division 1 table, after a very disappointing 2nd half to the campaign, 'The 'O's only managing 6 wins in their last 27 games. They started this season as well as they could, coming from a goal down to beat Hereford 2-1 on Saturday, whilst Town had the awful start against Preston losing by the same scoreline.
26 year old Adam Boyd will be leading Orients attack on Tuesday, he notched 14 goals in his first season for Orient after ending a knighmare season at Luton Town the previos year.

MATCH FACT Ipswich have failed to get to the 2nd round of the League Cup in the last 4 seasons.

Our record v Leyton Orient at Portman Road.

we have only ever met once in the League Cup, which was the last time the two teams met, Jason Dozzell and Micky Stockwell scored for Town in a 2-0 victory in the 4th round back in 1988.

overall record is:
Played 20
Won 12
Drawn 7
Lost 1
Goals:
For 47
Against 24

our biggest victory from those 12 games is 6-2 in our 2nd Division title winning season of 1960-61, Ray Crawford bagged a Hat-trick that day.
our only ever loss at Portman Road came 55 years ago (1953) in a Division 3 (south) game, Town losing by 1 goal to nil.
The highest attendance of 23,377 came when we were holders of the FA cup in 1979, a fourth round tie which ended 0-0. Town won the replay at Brisbane Road 2-0.
The lowest gate watched our only defeat to Orient in that game mentioned above, just 3116 turned up to see the loss.
Ray Crawford is unsurprisingly once again our leading all-time scorer against Orient with 7 goals, Doug Millward got 5 and Ted Phillips netted 4.
23 players have played for both clubs, they include, Darren Currie, Jamie Clapham, Trevor Putney, Ted Phillips and 'keeper Ron Fearon.

Key Player




I feel will be Jon Walters who Town should welcome back for his first start of the season, last season's Player of the season, was missed badly on Saturday and it just shows how much he means to our squad, we seem to play so much better when he starts.
Last terms leading scorer with 13 goals, he will get more this season.
I expect him to get atleast a couple on Tuesday night.

Leggi predicts: After Saturdays lack lustre performance Jim has made it clear how unimpressed he was, A few changes will be made for Tuesday and I hope we can Kick-off our season against an average Orient side. I predict a 4-0 win for Town.

The key here is our dodgy finishing. It's patently obvious that if we don't put away the chances early doors, we tend to wilt as far as confidence goes and are then often worried out of it. If the chances are despatched early on we'll career away with this. Sloppy finishing and watch out!

Midfielder David Norris is back in the Town squad for tonight’s Carling Cup tie with Leyton Orient at Portman Road. Norris missed the end of last season due to a heel problem which required surgery and then picked up another knock in the friendly at Brentford.

That injury, also relating to a heel, was not connected to the initial problem and the former Plymouth man returned to training last week.

Manager Jim Magilton has indicated that he intends to make changes for tonight’s game with Norris likely to get a run in midfield probably from the bench along with Jon Walters.

Richard Naylor and Alex Bruce are in line for inclusion at the back after missing out on Saturday, while Alan Lee may get a recall up front. Youngsters such as Liam Trotter and Jordan Rhodes may also be given time on the pitch.

New signing Iván Campo is not yet match fit and is unlikely to play for at least a week or so.

Town fans will be looking for an improvement in the Blues' Carling Cup form after a defeat on penalties to the MK Dons last season followed on from losses in previous years to Peterborough, Notts County, Doncaster Rovers and Yeovil Town.

Magilton agrees that the Blues’ recent record in the Carling Cup is not good enough: “My history in the League Cup is not one to shout from the rooftops about. After that poor start on Saturday it is important to get a win and give the lads a little confidence.

“Leyton Orient will get our full respect and we will go about our business with the full intent of winning. I know their manager Martin Ling from when he played at Swindon under Glenn Hoddle and they will want to play good football.

“They will come here and enjoy this place but we have to show our intent from the start. The lads that start need to show their intent in how much they want to be part of this team.”

Leyton Orient will be without on-loan Spurs striker Simon Dawkins who has an ankle injury, but otherwise O’s manager Martin Ling has a full squad from which to pick his side.

Orient beat Hereford 2-1 at home in their opening fixture of the season on Saturday with winger JJ Melligan and striker Adam Boyd, a team-mate of Tommy Miller’s at Hartlepool, on the scoresheet.

Manager Ling, whose side beat QPR 2-1 at the same stage of the competition last year, is looking forward to the game: "It's a good one for us. They're the type of team that like to play football. I suppose it's a non-pressure game, but cup runs can be important for money reasons as we all know.

"If we play as well as we did in the first half [against Hereford] or as well as we did against QPR, I think we can cause an upset."

Both sides will have seven substitutes on the bench with Carling Cup rules running in line with this season’s new Premier League initiative meaning that clubs can used three subs from a choice of seven.

Town last played Leyton Orient in a League Cup third round tie at Portman Road in November 1988 when the Blues won 2-0 via goals from Micky Stockwell and Jason Dozzell.

Likely squad: R Wright, Supple, D Wright, Balkestein, Casement, McAuley, Smith, Naylor, Bruce, Garvan, Shumulikoski, Trotter, Miller, Norris, Haynes, Walters, Quinn, Peters, Couñago, Lisbie, Lee, Rhodes

get norris match fit, drop that numpty miller. drop macauley and put in bruce, put balkstein in his right place as a centre back

not far out wiht your predictipn leggi

nope, thats a first!!