- Oct 17, 2006
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e will attempt to book our spot in the fourth round of the EFL Cup when we head to League Two side Leyton Orient (LO) on Tuesday night.
We will enter the match off the back of a morale-boosting 5-2 win over Southampton in the Premier League, while Orient shared the points with Mansfield Town in their last league encounter. Orient's 2019-20 campaign might have ended in March, but Ross Embleton's side have been busy at the start of this season, already taking to the field on five occasions for competitive fixtures.
The O's have beaten Forest Green Rovers and Plymouth Argyle in the first two rounds of the EFL Cup to advance to this stage, while they also overcame Brighton & Hove Albion's Under-21 side 3-2 in the EFL Trophy earlier this month. Orient started their League Two season with a 1-0 win at Oldham Athletic on September 12, meanwhile, before, as mentioned, sharing the points with Mansfield on Saturday afternoon.
Tuesday will actually bring the first meeting between us since January 2001, when we ran out 1-0 winners in the third round of the FA Cup. We would not have been feeling fantastic about ourselves after losing 1-0 to Everton on the opening weekend of the new Premier League season, while we only just overcame Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Europa League on Thursday night courtesy of two goals in the latter stages.
Deals for Real Madrid duo Gareth Bale and Sergio Reguilon were secured ahead of Sunday's Premier League clash with Southampton, though, and we emphatically overcame the Saints, with Son scoring four times in a 5-2 win at St Mary's.
Our fixture list is incredible as we face a trip to North Macedonia to take on Shkendija in the third qualifying round of the Europa League on Thursday night, before hosting Newcastle United in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.
The games are coming thick and fast for us, and Orient will certainly be looking to take advantage of the fact that we have bigger fish to fry than the League Cup. Orient boss Embleton is expected to shuffle his pack from the side that faced Mansfield in the league on Saturday as the hosts have an important game away to Walsall on September 26.
We will be without the services of Tanganga due to a thigh problem, while our new signing Bale is out until October with a knee injury.
Mourinho is expected to make wholesale changes from the side that faced Southampton, and there could be a debut for former England number one Joe Hart between the sticks. Aurier, Toby, Sissoko, Bergwijn, Foyth, sessegnon and Gedson could all feature in the eleven to face Orient.
Cirkin will also be hoping for an opportunity at left-back, while Dele could play despite the recent speculation surrounding his future. New signing Reguilon could also be involved in the squad despite concerns over his fitness.
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