Leyton Orient head coach Richie Wellens admitted he was quite happy with a point after a dramtic 2-2 draw with Colchester United.

The League Two leaders appeared to be heading towards another win at Brisbane Road - in front of a crowd of 8,684 - thanks to a first-half George Moncur penalty and Ruel Sotiriou effort on 68 minutes.

But Colchester hit back in the last minute of normal time, then snatched a share of the spoils in the second minute of stoppage time to leave O's six points clear of Stevenage at the top of the table.

"If you look at the whole game I'm quite happy with a point, because we didn't play well from the first minute, we were off it," Wellens told the club website.

Moncur fired home from the spot against his former club after Paul Smyth - named the EFL player of the year at the London PFA awards in the week - was fouled by Fiacre Kelleher.

That took Moncur's tally for the season to seven and 22-year-old Sotiriou then grabbed his fifth of the campaign midway through the second half with a fine finish.

But Connor Hall glanced home a header from a corner to give U's late hope and Noah Chilvers fired past Lawrence Vigouroux from 20 yards to ensure honours finished even, with Wellens left to rue late lapses in concentration.

"The biggest disappointment was our body language," he added.

"We're winning 2-0 with more or less the 90 minutes up and we don't organise for a set play, we're really slow, the ball has been out of play for 20 seconds and you're playing against a club that is desperate, they're fighting for their lives at the bottom of the league.

"They sprint for a corner and we're not marking right and allow someone to get across the front of us.

"And then the second goal, we kick it down the pitch when we've got no physical presence there against three centre-backs.

"We then pick up the second ball, but when we can chest it and play or put it in an area where they can't put it straight back on us [we don't], because the pitch is poor, it's really difficult.

"We're having a go at players sometimes to be better, but it's a really difficult pitch to play on, it's very boggy, and sometimes it bounces firm but a lot of the time it bounces and just takes the weight out of it.

"They then play it long and one of my centre-backs vacates his area, they exploit that and Chilvers has got the ball, it's a good finish.

"Just slow it down, be patient in your defending, let him pass it outside to the right wing-back and if he does that, I think we win the game.

"But we get too excited, we over-commit, he chops back inside and it's difficult for 'Vigs' because he doesn't know if he's going to go left or right, because he's a good player and it's a good finish by the lad."

Title rivals Stevenage drew 0-0 at promotion hopefuls Carlisle and O's make the long trip to relegation-threatened Hartlepool next weekend.