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Carlisle visit the O's hoping to improve on a poor return over the years. The Cumbrians hoping to pick up on a record which has seen them lose ten and win only three of the 20 games between the two sides at the Matchroom Stadium.
Last season in League One though United did make it five consecutive trips to the Matchroom Stadium without defeat, the teams grinding out a 0-0 draw in front of 3,803 spectators, that despite Carlisle having Scott Dobie sent off in the closing stages after he tussled with Orient's Brian Saah.
In the 2007-08 so near yet so far campaign perhaps United's best away performance of the season was a 3-0 victory at Leyton Orient. The goals, as 6,134 fans looked on, coming from Danny Graham, and then a couple of unlikely sources in David Raven and Grant Smith.
Apart from that excellent victory in that season, Carlisle's meagre two other wins at Orient have both been by 1-0 scorelines. The first victory coming in the 1973-74 season in the old Division Two with a goal in the opening 45 minutes from Dennis Martin as 7,645 spectators looked on. The Blues eventually pipping Orient to promotion to the top tier of English football by just one point come the end of the campaign.
The second win happened 25 years later in the 1999-2000 season when Matthew Pitts secured all three points with the only goal of the game in the 83rd minute in front of 3,871 fans, in another campiagn of that era which saw the Cumbrians escape relegation by the skin of their teeth.
The biggest victory for the O's on home soil against the Blues came in the 1987-88 season when they defeated Carlisle 4-1 in the old Fourth Division. United's only goal that day, at what was then Brisbane Road, was scored by Bobby Hutchinson in front of 2,861 fans in a terrible campaign that only saw the Cumbrians saved from relegation to the GM Vauxhall Conference by the financial demise of Newport County.
For a detailed analysis of the head-to-head between the two sides, click here
| Recent encounters between the teams | |||||
| 2008/2009 | Tue 10 Mar | Carlisle | 1 - 3 | Leyton Orient | LGE1 |
| 2008/2009 | Sat 23 Aug | Leyton Orient | 0 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2007/2008 | Sat 22 Mar | Leyton Orient | 0 - 3 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2007/2008 | Sat 15 Dec | Carlisle | 1 - 0 | Leyton Orient | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 17 Feb | Leyton Orient | 1 - 1 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 19 Aug | Carlisle | 3 - 1 | Leyton Orient | LGE1 |
| 2005/2006 | Sat 11 Feb | Leyton Orient | 0 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE2 |
Recent respective form guides
Leyton Orient's dreadful home form has resulted in just one victory and one draw from their last six matches played at the Matchroom Stadium. While the O's have scored six goals, a worringly large ten have been leaked at the other end.
Carlisle's away form is pretty good of late though, collecting two wins and three draws from their last six matches played away from Brunton Park. The Cumbrians have a narrow positive goal difference over these games at seven goals for and five against.
Leyton Orient see themselves just below half-way in the League One table, in 14th, at this early stage of the season, showing a record of four points from their four games played so far, Carlisle meanwhile have the same haul from their four matches, United down in 17th on goal difference.
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| Current form guides | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Leyton Orient | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 |
| Carlisle | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 10 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Carlisle are not doing too bad on their travels, and the Footymad panel think they should continue by carving out a narrow victory at Leyton Orient. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Leyton Orient | Lost last three home matches. Failed to win in previous five home games. Not won in the four most recent matches. |
| Carlisle | Undefeated in last four away games. Last drawn match four outings ago. |