Cambridge United 1 - 3 Leyton Orient
Pre-Season Friendly

ORIENT continued their countdown to the new season with a 3-1 win over Blue Square Premier side Cambridge United on Saturday.

Jonathan Téhoué's first goal since his comeback from injury, added to Matthew Spring's outrageous 60 yard shot and Scott McGleish's injury time third, won the game for the visitors, who were pushed hard by Martin Ling's U's.

Jamie Jones had to be on top form to deny Adam Marriott and Wayne Gray on several occasions, and although he was beaten by Robbie Willmott's stoppage time penalty, the O's came out on top.

The first 25 minutes passed largely without incident, although Cambridge left back James Jennings did send over a low cross that took a nick off an O's foot and rolled agonisingly beyond the far post on 13 minutes.

15 minutes later, O's striker Téhoué grabbed his first goal of pre-season following a devastating counter attack. Cambridge won a corner down the O's left, but seconds later the ball was in the back of their own net after Téhoué made the initial clearance, charged forward and latched onto Ryan Jarvis' incisive diagonal ball to hold off the last man and finish into the bottom left corner.

Téhoué let fly with another shot from range three minutes later, but this time U's keeper Simon Brown was behind his effort, diving to the right to parry to safety.

Two minutes before the interval, Cambridge should have levelled when they worked Marriott in, but the Cambridge striker, when faced only by Jones, could only find the outside of the post.

Marriott resumed his personal battle with Jones soon after the interval, and was twice denied by the O's stopper inside the first ten minutes of the second period, the scouser showing excellent reflexes to block the Cambridge man's path to goal.

Cambridge were pushing strongly for an equaliser and Gray, once an O's player, looked set to provide it on 76 after he collected Jennings' low pass inside the area. Once again, though, Jones was on top of the situation, making himself big to stop the threat.

Orient hadn't offfered much of a threat after half time, but they wrapped the game up in stunning style eight minutes from the end.

Spring was inside his own half when he picked up the ball, but spotting Brown off his line he went for goal, and left the U's stopper embarrassed with his accurately-placed effort.

Jones was to miss out on the clean sheet his second half deserved though, as Willmott converted an injury time penalty after Mike Cestor fouled the U's midfielder inside the box.

The goalscoring wasn't finished there, as McGleish notched his sixth goal of the summer, racing clear to dink over Brown and get the O's back to winning ways as they count down to the new season.

Cambridge: Brown; Thorpe, Coulson, Saah, Jennings; Platt (Willmott 58), Ives (Russell 58), Carden, Miller; Wright (Gray 58), Marriott
Subs: Naisbett (GK), Hudson, Coakley, Hughes

Goal: Willmott pen 90+2

Leyton Orient: Jones; Millwood, Brown, Chorley (Cestor 74), Tozer; Smith, Beautyman, Dawson (Spring 46), Cox (McGleish 85); Téhoué (Argent 61 (Patulea 68)), Jarvis
Subs: Butcher (GK), Forbes, Chambers, Revell, Omozusi

Goals: Téhoué 28, Spring 82, McGleish 90+3

Attendance: 1,037 (244 away)