O's dump out Shrimpers

Leyton Orient added to Southend's woes with a 4-2 win in their Johnstone's Paint Trophy first round derby match.

Orient claim derby success

Leyton Orient added to Southend's woes with a 4-2 win in their Johnstone's Paint Trophy first round derby match. Southend opened the scoring after 13 minutes through Lee Sawyer when he met Hal Robson-Kanu's lay-off and fired the ball into the bottom right hand corner of Jamie Jones' goal from the edge of the box. But the lead lasted just seven minutes before Orient were on level terms when Simon Dawkins teed up strike partner Ryan Jarvis who slotted home from 17 yards after taking a touch. The Shrimpers nearly took the lead through a powerful Adam Barrett header that went just wide, but it was the O's who went 2-1 up after 25 minutes when Dawkins passed to JJ Melligan on the right flank and his centre was headed home by Adam Chambers from 12 yards. Lee Barnard fired narrowly wide for Blues, who then levelled through on-loan Chelsea midfielder Sawyer in the 34th minute. Good approach play from Robson-Kanu set up James Walker who crossed for Sawyer to head past Jones from six yards.

Lead

Orient regained the lead three minutes into the second half when Loick Pires' pass found Melligan on the right of the box and he slammed a rising left foot shot into the top left hand corner. And the O's made sure of their progress to the second round when substitute Adam Boyd fired a penalty low into the left-hand corner of the net after he was brought down by Jean-Francois Cristophe.