Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Leyton Orient 1st with 91 points, Harrogate Town 19th with 52, 39 apart. Harrogate Town's recent output outran their position: 2nd on form over five rounds, 19th in the table. Per game in the league, Leyton Orient were scoring 1.33 and conceding 0.74, Harrogate Town 1.28 and 1.48, against a competition average of 1.17 goals per team per game.
Leyton Orient's unbeaten run stood at 11, having scored in 11 consecutive games.
GioScore's database holds 6 meetings between the two: 4 for Leyton Orient, 1 for Harrogate Town and 1 drawn, at 2.67 goals per meeting. Only 33% of these meetings ended in a home win.
The match was played at Brisbane Road in London (capacity 9,271). J. Bell took charge of the match — our records show 91 games refereed with an average of 2.0 yellow cards per game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Leyton Orient led 2-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-2.