Leyton Orient deservedly beat Leyton Orient 3-0 say Wellens

Goals from Sonny Perkins, Charlie Kelman and Tom James handed the O's a 3-0 victory and lifted them out of the bottom four in the division.

Perkins, the on-loan Leeds man, added to his FA Cup goal against Boreham Wood on Sunday with the opener on 34 minutes, meeting Dan Agyei's whipped cross to side foot home from close range. 

And they clinched only their second win at Brisbane Road this season with two goals in five second-half minutes.

Kelman got the first on 71 minutes, again benefiting from a superb run and cross from Agyei, while James applied the last touch to an Ollie O'Neill delivery shortly after.

That was totally justified according to the boss.

Tom James wrapped the points up for Orient with their third. Picture: TGS PHOTO (Image: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo) “I think we’ve been good at home in general and sometimes the results haven’t represented our performances,” Wellens said.

"Sonny Perkins has had to wait his chance and he needed to build his confidence up which we’ve tried to do progressively and his performance in general was really good. He was a threat.

"Now he’s got in the team, he needs to make sure he stays in the team.

"We have a small squad but our substitutes worked because they went on and did the job which I asked them to do and did what was expected of them.

“We pressed them really well and I must he honest, Blackpool were outstanding in the first 15 minutes of the second half and caused us massive problems.

"[Kyle] Joseph could have scored and then hit the crossbar where we got lucky, but overall, we deserved the result and got the little bit of luck we needed so credit to the players."

Richie Wellens was very pleased with the performance against Blackpool. Picture: TGS PHOTO (Image: Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo) Those chances for Joseph aside, left the Seasiders' boss Steve Bruce to be very clear about the way his team played.

“We simply didn’t play well enough, especially in the first half,” he acknowledged.

“Then just when we got into the game in the second half when we had a 20-minute spell and looked more like us again, we didn’t take those big opportunities.

"When you defend the way we’ve just have, then it’s going to be a very difficult afternoon because we defended so poorly and gave bad goals away.

“That’s something we have to improve upon and its’s been something now that has obviously crept in during the past few weeks in particular.

"We must give ourselves a platform and stop the way we are defending at the minute.

“There was no concentration, we gave the ball away, they counter-attack and we conceded three awful goals.

“We should have had a penalty just after half-time and then we hit the bar and all of a sudden it becomes a different game.

“All three goals were really, really, poor.”

Their next League One game is now on Saturday, November 23, when they travel to Stevenage for an early kick-off.

Their scheduled match at home to Mansfield Town on Saturday has been postponed as the Stags have a number of international call-ups.