Slade feeling the pressure

Leyton Orient manager Russell Slade has revealed that he has got one game to save his job following defeat to Colchester.

Last season's beaten play-off finalists lost 2-0 at home to the U's on Saturday. Second-half goals by Sanchez Watt and Freddie Sears gave 10-man United their first league win of the season. Slade was told after the game that Tuesday night's trip to Notts County now becomes pivotal in terms of his future. He said: "The President (Francesco Becchetti) has been honest enough, via Mauro Milanese (sporting director) that we've got one game to sort it out. "So hopefully, we'll get a response on Tuesday night or that's it in terms of my job. Obviously, it was not a great result for the football club, but these things can happen and the president will want better than that. "Of course we all want better than that, to look at the bigger picture and not just the short-term picture, but the situation is that we need to get the win on Tuesday otherwise it will be curtains. "Unfortunately it can be a cruel world, but that's life. We've got a lot of work to do between now and Tuesday and that has to be the focus now and ensure that we get back on track. "I love this football club, the fans have been magnificent and I hope everybody pulls together and we can get a positive result on Tuesday." Slade took Orient to the cusp of promotion last season only to be denied by a penalty shoot-out defeat at Wembley, and although the league form this season has produced just six points from as many matches, the O's are still in the Capital One Cup having beaten Aston Villa at Villa Park last month. Slade, who joined Orient in 2010, admitted that the performance of his team against Colchester was poor. He said: "Our defending at times was pretty woeful but as a group, I think we let everybody down. They let me down, they let themselves down and they let the fans down in the second period when we playing against 10 men." Orient travel to Notts County on Tuesday for what could be Slade's final game and with a twist of irony, it was at Meadow Lane that he started his career as a coach. Colchester had captain Magnus Okuonghae sent off for a reckless challenge on David Mooney two minutes before half-time but the visitors showed a fighting spirit to respond with goals from Watt after 62 minutes and the impressive Sears 11 minutes later. Colchester manager Tony Humes was able to celebrate his club's first win of the season in only his second game in charge. "Obviously I'm delighted even if it was backs against the wall at times," he stated. "I thought that we were a little disappointing in the first half of how we kept the ball. We started off alright but then we lacked a little bit in terms of belief of how we were trying to play and we went away from our game plan. "We got away with a couple of things in the first half but we defended resolutely and had fantastic togetherness as a team and we went in 0-0 at half-time, which was great for us after we had a player sent-off. "But we stuck together and got over it and showed fantastic team spirit. In the second-half, we had to be brave with the ball, certainly much better than we had been in the first-half and we kept two up front to give us an outlet and to make people actually pass the ball. "We played some superb counter-attack football with real quality and good decision-making and maybe we could have had a goal or two more."