Leyton Orient’s Charlie Kelman shares instant reaction to his offside goal vs Stockport County, ‘got to sell it’

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Leyton Orient and Stockport County faced off at Brisbane Road in a League One play-off meeting on May 10.

Birmingham City won the League One title with a record 111 points this season, while Wrexham won promotion to the Championship for the first time ever.

The remaining promotion place will go to Leyton Orient, Stockport County, Wycombe Wanderers or Charlton Athletic.

Charlton manager Nathan Jones has been discussing his future this week before their meeting with Wycombe on May 11.

Meanwhile, Leyton Orient and Stockport went head-to-head in the first play-off semi-final on Saturday.

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Charlie Kelman on offside goal vs Leyton Orient

Charlie Kelman put the home team in front with 30 minutes on the clock despite clearly being offside in the build-up.

Stockport hit back 14 minutes into the second half when Oliver Norwood converted from 12 yards before Fraser Horsfall fired the Hatters into the lead with 65 minutes gone.

Kelman added his second of the day from a penalty of his own late on and has now shared his reaction to his first goal of the day alongside Omar Beckles.

Speaking live on Sky Sports right after the match, the duo admitted the goal was offside.

Beckles said: “He’s been class. I mentioned on Sky earlier half of his goals this season have been offside. First goal was offside.

“But he’s an absolute fox in the box. He works really hard and credit to him, his hard work’s paid off and that’s going to hold us in good stead going into the next game. We need his confidence, we need his goals. We didn’t realise it was offside until half time when they were giving it a right moan.”

Kelman responded: “GCSE drama that, you’ve got to sell it.  You know, to get goals, I speak to a lot of EFL players who’ve been there and done it, they say always be on the move and that’s what I tried to do there. I stepped up with the line, and sometimes you get the rub of the green.

“You have to sell it, I’m off in that corner, everyone’s got to come and catch me.”

Beckles responded: “I think the beauty of EFL is that there’s no VAR and there’s room for errors, that’s what makes this game special.”

And the forward replied: “Imagine you took that goal away at the start.”

Leyton Orient will be happy with Stockport County result

Orient now travel to Stockport for the return leg next week.

Following the tie, Jobi McAnuff was speaking to Sky Sports as a pundit and admitted Richie Wellens will be happy with the result.

He said: “I think they [Leyton Orient] will be delighted given first half I didn’t think they were quite at it and then they find themselves 2-1 down after taking a lead against the run of play.

“Great spirit, great togetherness is what we’ve seen from Richie Wellens’ teams certainly towards the end of the season with that run they went on.

“I think overall, they’ll be pretty pleased. Yes, maybe one or two opportunities to maybe nick it. I think that would’ve been a little bit fortunate.

“It’s down to a one-game shootout away from home, which I think he’ll be really happy with.”