It was a very disappointing night for the Glens Women and Under 20s teams tonight as both fell to defeats.
Glentoran Women slipped from first to third in the Danske Bank Women's Premiership with a 4-0 away defeat to second places Sion Swifts. A full report will appear here.
A very young Glentoran U20s team fell to a first half goal at the Oval to lose 1-0 to Dungannon Swifts U20s. A full report will appear here.
Glentoran will host Ballyclare Comrades in the first round of this year's Toal's County Antrim Shield. The match will be played on Tuesday 10th September, Kick off 7.45pm.
The winners will be at home in the second round to either Larne or PSNI on Tuesday 15th October.
Glentoran Women 4-0 Comber Rec Ladies
Holders Glentoran Women continued their Electric Ireland Women's Challenge Cup defence with a four-goal semi-final defeat of Comber Rec Ladies at Seaview.
The game was only 90 seconds old when Rachel Rogan latched onto a pass and calmly placed a side footed shot past keeper Leigh Skelton from the left hand corner of the 18-yard box.
A second late goal in five days from Paul O'Neill, this time proved nothing other than consolation as Glentoran fell to a deserved first defeat of the season at Stangmore Park.
There were two changes to Tuesday’s starting line up. Skipper Marcus Kane replaced Ross Redman at left back on his return from suspension. Up front Darren Murray dropped to the bench to give Curtis Allen a start up front between Robbie McDaid and Tom Byrne.
Saturday 17 August 2019, Kick Off 3.00pm
On Saturday we make our first visit of the season to Stangmore Park.
Glentoran 2006s paraded the much coveted Super Cup to our large home support at Tuesday nights IPL game against Coleraine at the Oval to round off an amazing journey in their young careers!
In the competition itself a couple of weeks back the boys had to mount a comeback after a shaky start on day one of the tournament where the boys lost 2-1 to Bertie Peacock against the run of play which put them up against it as it usually takes three wins to top a super cup group and only first place in the group make the super cup proper.
Brendan Hamilton scored on day one.
Glentoran Women returned to the top of the Danske Bank Women's Premiership on goal difference tonight with a comfortable win over Derry City at the Brandywell. The Glens goals came from Rachel Rogan (2), Joely Andrews and Kerry Beattie.
Glentoran are on level points with Sion Swifts and a point ahead of Linfield Ladies. However those two teams have one and two games in hand respectively.
Full report here
Coleraine U20 2-5 Glentoran U20
Glentoran 20s bounced back and got their season up and running this evening with three well earned points in Coleraine.
Cricky Gallagher opened the scoring with a sweet curling finish from 20 yards before James McCarthy powered in a header from a pin point Charlie Lindsay free kick.
Coleraine pulled the game back to 2-1 from the penalty spot but minutes later McCarthy was on the mark again, this time from a corner with a back post header for 3-1
Two goals in the last twelve minutes rescued the Glens from what would have been a very harsh and undeserved defeat in front of an outstanding home support at the Oval last night.
Premiership football is back at the Oval tonight and it’s a brand new look for your multi-award winning Glentoran Gazette. In the first edition Henry Muldrew recalls his least favourite Glentoran kit while on the flip side Sam Robinson lays his hands on two pieces of memorabilia which bring back a multitude of great memories. Thomas McCartney has been “On The Road” to our pre-season friendlies, Eddy Patrick begins a new feature chatting to our 250 Club members starting with current club captain Marcus Kane and the John Grayden interview is with last Friday’s man of the match John Herron.
