The Leyton Orient Chronicle
Squad21 Sep 2026
Sean Clare breaks a bone — 116 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Leyton Orient
A 1‑0 win over AFC Wimbledon, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Yusuf Akhamrich
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match16 Sep 2026
Diallang Jaiyesimi wins it after the whistle should have gone
113 minutes played. Diallang Jaiyesimi found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and AFC Wimbledon went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Idris El Mizouni in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leyton Orient this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Leyton Orient training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Arreguín is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match19 Sep 2026
Leyton Orient find a way past Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers made Leyton Orient work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Aaron Connolly in the eights
A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Diallang Jaiyesimi
7.88, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Leyton Orient had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Squad Jack Simpson gets it from the manager
- Market Leyton Orient add cover with Cristian Toledo
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Nicolás Franco