ORIENT won their first point of the season by holding on for a real backs-to-the-wall draw at Southampton on Saturday.

The Saints forced near-constant pressure on the O's goal, and most of the 21,000 crowd at St Mary's would have expected the floodgates to open once Rickie Lambert fired them into a 12th minute lead.

But Orient responded three minutes later as Terrell Forbes headed just his second career goal and that proved enough to get Russell Slade's men off the mark for the season.

Southampton hit the woodwork twice, while Jamie Jones needed to make a number of fine saves, but the hosts couldn't make a second breakthrough and it ended all square.

Photos by Simon O'Connor.