Colchester United 1-0 Leyton Orient: result and report
League One · Sunday 28 December 2008
Result
Colchester United 1-0 Leyton Orient
League One · Sunday 28 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Colchester United 1-0 Leyton Orient: match report
Colchester United beat Leyton Orient 1-0 in the League One on Sunday 28 December 2008. The half-time score was 1-0.
The only goal came from Steven Gillespie of Colchester United in the 39th minute, from the penalty spot.
Discipline: Colchester United received 3 yellow cards; Leyton Orient received 6 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Colchester United were 15th on 28 points from 22 and Leyton Orient 20th on 22 points from 22. Colchester United went on to finish that season 12th with 63 points, and Leyton Orient 15th with 56.
Going into the match Colchester United's last five read W-D-W-L-W and Leyton Orient's L-D-L-D-W.
Key events
- 12'Yellow card · Jason Dimitriou
- 39'Penalty goal · Steven Gillespie
- 41'Yellow card · Sean Thornton
- 50'Yellow card · Ryan Jarvis
- 51'Yellow card · Marc Tierney
- 58'Yellow card · Kemal Izzet
- 78'Yellow card · Adam Chambers
- 82'Second yellow · Sean Thornton
- 82'Yellow card · A. Maybury
- 86'Yellow card · John Melligan
- 90+2'Yellow card · Andrew Cave-Brown