Gillingham goalkeeper Glenn Morris on the challenge of facing former club and League 2 leaders Leyton Orient

Goalkeeper Glenn Morris will be back on familiar territory when Gillingham go to Leyton Orient.

Morris spent a decade with the O’s, making 124 appearances, before joining Southend in 2010.

Now in his second stint with the Gills, the 38-year-old will line up against Orient at Brisbane Road tonight.

His old club are flying, going top of League 2 after Saturday’s 3-2 victory at Carlisle.

It’ll be a challenge for the Gills but one Morris, who saved a penalty in a 1-1 draw against Barrow at the weekend, is looking forward to.

“It’ll be a tough one, it always is going there,” said Morris.

“They’re flying at the minute but it’s a game that you want to be involved in, you want to go there and put in a performance and hopefully cause an upset.

“It’s an old team of mine, I enjoy playing against them. I’m sure I’ll get a little bit of stick but that’s part and parcel of being a goalkeeper.

“I was there for 10 years from YTS up to 26. I enjoyed it.

"I probably stayed a little bit too long in the end.

“It’s one of them where you’re on the bench as a goalie and you should probably move on for my career but I stayed a little bit too long.

“But I enjoyed it, it was a good club, with lots of good people there

“It was a bit like, not a sleeping giant, because it’s not a giant, but it seemed like it had the potential to go a little bit further.

“Obviously they’re doing really well this year so that might be their time.”

Orient dropped out of the Football League five years ago and it took the appointment of ex-Gillingham manager Justin Edinburgh to get them moving again.

He won the the National League title in his only full season in charge before his sudden death from a cardiac arrest, aged 49, 2019.

Now in their fourth year back in League