Brentford survived an early scare towards Leyton Orient earlier than Fabio Carvalho’s beautiful first aim helped them into the Carabao Cup fourth spherical with a 3-1 win.
Thomas Frank made eight modifications to the staff that had been crushed by Manchester Metropolis within the Premier League on Saturday and the gamble regarded prone to backfiring when defender Brandon Cooper surprised residence supporters in west London with an early tap-in at hand Richie Wellens’ facet the lead.
However Frank’s stand-ins rallied and replied with three targets earlier than the break, the spotlight a wonderful overhead kick from Carvalho to equalise, earlier than Mikkel Damsgaard’s header and Christian Norgaard’s 18-yard strike established a two-goal lead.
Orient stayed within the sport for a lot of the second half till captain Jack Simpson was despatched off 20 minutes from time, as a courageous show led to a cup exit.
The staff at present twenty second within the third tier started boldly, defying their lowly league inserting. Contained in the opening 10 minutes, spectacular Tottenham loanee Jamie Donley carried the ball infield from the best, bounced an tried by way of ball off Ben Mee and, because it broke again to him, hit a shot that deflected extensive off Norgaard.
The opening aim moments later was not more than Orient’s early ambition deserved. Winger Diallang Jaiyesimi confirmed fleetness of foot to create space to shoot, hitting an effort that spun away to the right-back Tom James positioned close to the touchline. He despatched over a depraved cross that was side-footed in unmarked on the far publish by Cooper.
The equaliser was not lengthy in arriving. An excellent run by Kevin Shade led to him dispatching a low shot that pinged into the air off the foot of goalkeeper Josh Keeley. From the rebound, Carvalho leapt acrobatically to crash an overhead kick contained in the publish for his first aim since becoming a member of from Liverpool.
Damsgaard accomplished the turnaround after 26 minutes and this time Carvalho was the supplier, whipping a fantastic ball to the far publish that was completed with a intelligent diving header by the Denmark winger.
Carvalho was later denied by Josh Keeley as he regarded so as to add to his tally
His countryman Norgaard rifled within the third earlier than half-time. Carvalho tumbled over the leg of Orient’s Dom Ball on the sting of the field and, earlier than the referee was known as to decide over whether or not to award a penalty, Norgaard had aimed a devilish first-time effort into the far nook to make it 3-1.
Substitute Charlie Kelman should have introduced Orient again into it on the hour mark however didn’t squeeze his shot inside Hakon Valdimarsson’s close to publish after going clear by way of.
Mads Roerslev cracked a shot into the side-netting from 20 yards as Brentford sought to kill the sport, earlier than Orient’s destiny was successfully sealed with Simpson’s sending off, proven a second yellow card for a pointless rugby sort out inside his personal half on Shade.
