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Leyton Orient has booked his place in the League One playoff final with a win in the criminal shooting 4-1 over Stockport, after the semifinal of the playoffs ended 3-3 on the aggregate.
The excellent Flick Isaac Olaofa canceled Ollie’s Ollie O’Neilla opener at Edgeley Park and sent the game at an extra time.
But after Jack Diamond’s penalty was saved by goalkeeper Orient Jack Keeley, and the effort Ryan Rydela returned from the inside of the left, Ethan Galbraith remained harmonious to start jubilee in the guest.
Orient will face the winner of the second second leg on Thursday night between Charlton and Wycombe on Wembley on Sunday, May 25, live on Sport Sky Sports Sports.
Home tickets for the other leg Crunch were sold out within 10 minutes from May 9th – but within just three minutes from the beginning, Edgeley Park was stunned.
The hosts, for a moment, turned off, allowing Galbraith to play smartly free to hit from the right to O’Neill, who in a close post squeezed for the first time volleyball next to Corey Adai.
Stockport seemed to take advantage of his air threat to find the equalization, but the luck of Fraser Horsfall seemed to be especially out. The captain directed the bar, secured the ball for Olaofa, who started, and then sent another header next to the left, to which he was visibly frustrated.
Orient almost established two goals in the night, and at the aggregate, just before the interruption, while Charlie Kelman met the cross on the left with his shoulder, he directed the ball to the bottom of the crossbar.
Stockport was almost gifted with a chance to return to the game within five minutes of re -launch, when goalkeeper Keeley picked up the rear passage, but the delivery of Jayden Fevriera was blocked – and the host swing was particularly fell after that.
They straightened up with 16 minutes 90 for the game, when Olaofa turned Jack Diamond’s ball into the back of the net with an excellent flick – and he should have won it when the attacker sent a clear goal to the goal, but hit his shot too much power and missed the goal.
An additional time without an incident, except for the last seconds of the second 15-minute period, was given to Odin Bailey a famous chance to win him for Stockport, who pulled out of the outside of the mail.
Stockport’s luck seemed to be on the outside, which was confirmed in the shooting, extinguishing the chances of promoting backwards and handing over Orient the opportunity to return to the second level, for the first time after the 1992/93 campaign.
Sky Sports’ Jobi Mcanuff:
“They coincided evenly with two legs. Nothing separated them. Seeing what the club went through to see Orient to come to a final, huge merit for the owners.
“The players made so little wealth. They had to drive their happiness. Stockport missed some great opportunities. Sometimes there is just a feeling that it should have been and felt like that for Orient.”
Sky Sports’ Lee Hendrie:
“Dave Challinor and his side Stockport were great. Really, really good. Stockport has to go again and believe they have a quality.
“What an amazing two legs we had. The way Orient approached the other leg, they did absolutely all. The credit for Richie Wellens, Orient and all their fans. We saw two very good teams in League 1.
“I said the playwright winner would get out of this tie.”
Richie Wellens from Leyton Orient on Sky Sports Football -u:
“When you go to penalties, it’s a lottery, but it’s our fourth time this year. I talked to the players just before we took the penalties. I said you believe in your goalkeeper, he is one of the best I have ever seen in the penalties, believe it will save a few.
“Then players taking penalties, if you ever feel that moment of doubt, slow down your breathing down, make sure you concentrate on your technique and guess the target where you want to hit. After such a long night, I thought we really did our penalties well.
“We applied them; we said it would not be a 90-minute game, it might be 120, maybe it is longer. We didn’t practice it because you can’t repeat it, and this year we had enough practice in the cups, so I’m proud of the group.
“I thought that sometimes we are a little naive in our game, in fact very naive, but we have a lot of young players and if they want to come to the place and where they should come with time, they have to go through these nights, and they have to go through the night like this when they do not go their own way, and they will show themselves.
“As a player, I became nervous, because I know where I wanted to come, but again, I think I can manage at a higher level than this, and if I want, I have to go through such nights, with younger players, and try to keep in the cold. It’s really hard in the heat of the moment and sometimes it is chaotic.
“You can say in my voice that I am broken. We need a few days off. I will probably go to the game tomorrow and try to win the best stadium in the world.”
Stockport’s Dave Challinor on Sky Sports Football -u:
“Of course it’s hard, especially the way you lose the game in the end, on penalties. I’m super proud of what we did. I think you saw last night in the game (Sunderland VS Coventry) what moments I can decide.
“We will be disappointed with the aim we have received early in the game, which is uncomfortable of us, but we had two big moments in the 91th minute and 120.
“Whether it is a slight hangover that goes to punishment, I’m not sure, but everything can happen. Based on the last three weeks and watching us take penalties, I would support us, but this is a unique situation you have to put yourself in to go and step – and deserving of Leyton Orient, they have achieved.
“Unfortunately, we did not progress, which is why we are disappointed, but as I said to the players, at the very end, no one is guilty. We made great to be in this situation and so we approached.
“Of course, it is bitter to swallow because we can all think that we deserve it or we deserve to do it, but ultimately we are not, so we dust. The league starts a week earlier for us, a short break, but we will return next season.
Will it wonder what could be that Kelman’s first goal in the first part was excluded due to offsida: “No, because what makes sense? If I continue to do it for the rest of my life, I’ll end up in a really, really bad place. We’ve gotten from it. Things will happen beyond our control. I hope that situation never happens again.”