Leyton Orient made short work of Waltham Abbey in a Club Friendlies fixture on Tuesday, running out 7-1 winners at home. The visitors managed only one goal, scored by C. Wellens in the ninth minute, before the visitors' response began in earnest. To be fair, Orient never really looked threatened after that early strike.
The twenty-second minute brought the second goal, though the provider did not name a scorer. By then the visitors were already on top, and the pattern continued when D. Mitchell found the net just five minutes later. Waltham Abbey had one corner and thirty-one per cent possession, which tells you everything about where the game was heading.
After the break J. Morris added a fourth before half-time, and Orient kept pushing. T. Springett and C. Wellens—his team-mate from the opening goal—scored in the sixty-eighth and sixty-ninth minutes. It was a sequence of three chances in quick succession that left the hosts exposed.
J. Lowe came off the bench and grabbed two goals in the eighty-first and eighty-third minutes. Seven attacks from the hosts compared to seventy-five for the visitors, nine corners against one. The statistics are not cruel, but they are honest enough.
Orient had won 2-1 against Anderlecht on Friday and were clearly in a different rhythm. Waltham Abbey's last outing was a 2-0 defeat to Chatham Town, and they never got going here. The final scoreline tells the story without needing commentary.