{"id":495130,"date":"2019-08-02T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=495130"},"modified":"2019-07-30T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T14:37:38","slug":"leyton-orients-season-cheltenham-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/08\/02\/leyton-orients-season-cheltenham-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Leyton Orient&#8217;s Season Starts Against Cheltenham Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019\/20 EFL season begins this weekend, as does Leyton Orient&#8217;s season. For the O&#8217;s, their campaign will kick off against Cheltenham Town at home on Saturday. This will Orient&#8217;s first game back in the EFL for two years.<\/p>\n<h2>Leyton Orient&#8217;s Season Kick-Offs Against Cheltenham Town<\/h2>\n<h3>A Day to Remember Regardless of Orient&#8217;s Result<\/h3>\n<p>Saturday will be a day to savour for everyone at Leyton Orient. After two long seasons in the National League, the O&#8217;s will mark their return to the Football League, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/40246146\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a day perhaps not many saw possible<\/a> less than two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A turbulent period saw the O&#8217;s endure a downward spiral, which ultimately led to relegation to non-league football. However, new ownership and a marvellous job by the late great Justin Edinburgh guided the club back to the EFL.<\/p>\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t be more fitting to begin their campaign at home, in front of what will be an excited O&#8217;s faithful.<\/p>\n<h3>The First of 46 Challenging Fixtures<\/h3>\n<p>The EFL regular season is a long, tiring and draining one for everyone. The basement of the EFL, which is League Two, will be no different.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s fourth-tier is looking as competitive as ever, which will also mean tussling for positions will be a key factor for the season ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning as they mean to go on, kicking off their campaign with a victory would obviously be ideal for Orient. But it will not be an easy prospect, especially against a seasoned EFL outfit such as Cheltenham Town.<\/p>\n<p>It is going to be a long season ahead for Leyton Orient, but if they can maintain consistent form in the opening four weeks, then their prospects could be positive for the forthcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<h3>Prediction for Saturday<\/h3>\n<p>Everyone will want to start with a win, however by the same token at least a point to begin the season is ideal.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday a 1-1 draw at home would be a decent start for the O&#8217;s, as they can chalk a point off and look to build on more positive performances as the season goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it would also be an added bonus if new either of Orient&#8217;s new strikers in <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/07\/01\/lee-angol-leyton-orient-shrewsbury-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lee Angol<\/a> or Conor Wilkinson can get off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"MAqmY1F5TEdMccSwg3kUuQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1145461372\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MAqmY1F5TEdMccSwg3kUuQ',sig:'YsBRmNSFTSm5P1S2LsjN6vDSlyY9nP3QcnJDp6KHChs=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'1145461372',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orient&#8217;s begin the 2019\/20 EFL campaign at home to Cheltenham Town this weekend. Their first game in the EFL for two years, the excitement builds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":495249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[233,168,827,1345,136],"class_list":["post-495130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-league-football","tag-cheltenham-town","tag-efl","tag-efl-league-two","tag-leyton-orient","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}