John Coleman full of praise for Accrington match-winner Josh Windass

The striker collected his eighth league goal of the campaign and that proved sufficient to allow Stanley to leapfrog Orient in the League Two table.

The home side were booed off the field by a minority of the crowd but the visitors fully deserved their win, with Windass proving a handful for the home side's defence.

"He comes alive on the pitch and was a constant threat," Coleman said.

"He showed that he is a real menace when he gets in those advanced areas. He'll probably class himself as a midfielder if you ask him but we are playing him forward and he's getting the chances and he is starting to convert them.

"He tired a bit towards the end which is why I substituted him.

"But I'm really pleased for the players because it's all about the players. The effort they put in and some of the football they played was very, very good. They were very assured and but for a five or 10-minute spell in the second half, when we allowed Orient to pressure us, I thought it was a terrific overall performance.

"Orient are a good side and on another day they might have scored a couple in the first half.

"But we came right back into the game and kept them at arms length in the second half.

"I'm sure Orient will be winning a lot of games here and they will be thereabouts come the automatic promotion places at the end of the season."

Orient were allowed few chances against a well-organised Accrington outfit who showed more pace and flair throughout the game to emerge deserved winners.

Boss Ian Hendon spent a long time in the home dressing room before emerging and could not disguise his dejection.

"To say I'm disappointed is an understatement," he said.

"The performance was not acceptable. We've had a discussion in there, if you could call it that, and looked at some of the clips of the game.

"If you don't take your chances, you don't win games. We had some good chances in the game but I'm not saying we played well because we didn't and I'm not going to disguise that fact.

"I'm not papering over any cracks, that performance was not good enough by any stretch of the imagination. I will be dealing with that.

"I'm really disappointed with the manner in which we conceded the goal. We've done a lot of homework on the training ground, we've been showing our players for two days what Accrington's strengths are and how they play and that's how their goal came about.

"But if they don't take it on board and make mistakes like they did here, then we'll have to make some changes. We've had a poor performance, should have gone in front but then conceded and the disappointing thing was our reaction after that."