Debut goal for McVarnock as Glens win U20s Derby
Goals from new signing Pearse McVarnock and (no surprise here) Paul O'Neill gave Glentoran U20s a deserved 2-1 home league win over Linfield tonight.
A full report is on the U20s News page.
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Linfield 4-2 Glentoran
Glentoran staged a bit of a second half fightback at the National Stadium this evening but ended up with nothing to show for their efforts. Yet again slack defending and ill discipline proved costly to the East Belfast side.
Match Preview: Linfield v Glentoran
Monday 28th January 2019. Kick off 7.45pm.
Tomorrow evening we cross the city for the second time in a month to face our old rivals Linfield at Windsor Park in the third “Big Two” Danske Bank Premiership match of the season.
Under 20s : Ards 0-7 Glentoran
Young striker Sean Wallace hit a hat trick as our Under 20s had a comprehensive 7-0 win over Ards at Londinderry Park, Newtownards today. The other Glens scorers were Ben Cushnie, Mal Smith, Janes McCarty and - with his first goal at this level - Corai Quinn.
Hat Trick Hero Sean Wallace
A full match report is on the U20s News page,
Gavin Peers Joins Glentoran
Gavin (33) is a central defender from Dublin who spent the League of Ireland 2018 season with Derry City. However he is best known for eleven highly successful seasons at Sligo Rovers who he captained to a League Championship, three FAI Cups, a League of Ireland Cup and a Setanta Cup win.. He has also been selected for the Republic of Ireland at U23 level and also for the League of Ireland representative team.
Photos from Newry City match
Thanks to Ballymac GSC member, Joe Burns for sending us these photographgs from Saturday's home Danske Bank Premiership win over Newry City.
Glentoran 2-1 Newry City
Two late goals saw Glentoran come from behind to claim all 3 points in today's Danske Banke Premiership game.
Manager, Gary Smyth stuck with the same team which won against Institute last Saturday and in the first half Glentoran dominated the game but without creating many real goal scoring chances.
Ticket Information: Linfield Away
Tickets for our game against Linfield at the National Stadium at Windsor Park on Monday 28th January, kick off 7.45pm, will go on sale from the Superstore tomorrow between 10am and 12.30pm, and then again from 2pm.
Adult price £11 and Concession price £7. Tickets will also be distributed to our ticket outlets over the weekend.
Tomorrow's Gazette
No prizes for guessing who’s on the front cover of tomorrow’s edition of your award winning Glentoran Gazette, and the goalkeeper theme continues as John Grayden interviews Elliott’s understudy Dwayne Nelson. John also reflects on how we can make the Oval a fortress once again, Eddy Patrick chats to our new manager Gary Smyth and, fresh from scoring his maiden senior goal, young striker Paul O’Neill.
Match Preview: Glentoran v Newry City
Saturday 19th January 2019, Kick Off 3.00pm
Things can change quickly in four months. When we last played Newry in September, we did so in third place in the table, in the middle of a nine game unbeaten run and ran out comfortable 4-1 winners with goals from Curtis Allen, Robbie McDaid, Marcus Kane and Dylan Davidson and a Newry reply from our former player Conall Delaney.