Leyton Orient enjoy playoff fortune as Charlie Kelman double holds Stockport

Leyton Orient and Stockport drew a arguable League One playoff semi-final archetypal limb 2-2, with the hosts’ Charlie Kelman scoring archetypal and last.

Kelman was intelligibly offside for his side’s opener successful the 30th minute, the officials presumably believing the shot had been played by a Stockport defender alternatively than Omar Beckles.

Charlie Kelman is intelligibly offside arsenic helium shapes to conscionable Omar Beckles’ flick-on. There is nary VAR successful the playoff semi-final, lone astatine Wembley for the final, truthful the extremity stands. Photograph: Sky Sports

Stockport levelled connected the hr done Oliver Norwood’s penalty, awarded for a handball by Rarmani Edmonds-Green, though the defender raised his limb aft being held down by Fraser Horsfall. The Stockport brace past combined to springiness them the lead, with Norwood’s free-kick headed successful by Horsfall successful the 65th minute.

Stockport, who finished third, looked acceptable to instrumentality a pb backmost to Edgeley Park for Wednesday’s 2nd leg. But Orient were past awarded a punishment of their own, with Horsfall deemed to person had his manus successful an unnatural presumption erstwhile it was struck by a changeable from Ollie O’Neill. Kelman made nary mistake.

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