Photo Gallery for Glentoran -v- Sligo Rovers
Glentoran | |
Aaron Hogg
Goalkeeper |
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Calum Birney
Defender |
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Kevin Bradley
Defender |
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John McGuigan
69' ![]() |
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Jimmy Callacher
Midfielder |
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David Howland
Midfielder |
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Marcus Kane
72' ![]() |
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Martin Murray
Midfielder |
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Jim O'Hanlon
54' ![]() |
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Mark Clarke
Forward |
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Andrew Waterworth
Forward |
Substitutes | |
Daniel Burns
69' ![]() |
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Stephen Carson
Midfield |
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Richard Clarke
54' ![]() Booked: 59'
Midfield
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Karl McComb
Forward |
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Billy McCullough
72' ![]() |
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Colin Nixon
Defender |
Sligo Rovers | |
Gary Rogers
Goalkeeper |
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Seamus Conneely
Defender 46' ![]() |
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Jeff Henderson
Defender Booked: 62'
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Alan Keane
Defender 69' ![]() |
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Evan McMillan
Defender |
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David Cawley
Midfielder |
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Ryan Connolly
Midfielder |
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Kieran Djilali
Midfielder |
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Lee-J Lynch
Midfielder Scored: 7'
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Raffaele Cretaro
Forward Scored: 25'
59'![]() |
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Pascal Millien
Forward |
Substitutes | |
Jake Dykes
Defender |
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Anthony Elding
Forward |
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Ciaran Kelly
Goalkeeper |
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Liam Martin
Midfield 59' ![]() Scored: 85'
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Hugh McFadden
Defender |
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Shane McGinty
Midfield 46' ![]() |
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Marty Owens
Defender 69' ![]() |
FULL TIME!
All over at the Oval and its a comprehensive eight goal aggregate victory for Sligo who were never relly toubled all evening and can now look forward to a semi final spot. I'm John McCormack and i'll bid you goodnight from Belfast and thank you for joining me.
GOAL!
Liam Martin scores for Sligo Rovers. Martin cuts in from the right and rifles the ball past Hogg for Sligo's third on the night.
Lee Lynch fires over as Sligo break fast but Lynch can't keep his volley down
Glentoran continue to press and Andrew Waterworth tries his luck from the edge of the area but the ball flies narrowly wide
Substitution
Substitution
Substitution
Again Rogers comes to Sligo's recue as he produces an excellent save from Martin Murray's shot from 25 yards. Glentoran are getting closer.
Jimmy callacher goes close for Glentoran a s he free kick is fumbled over the top by Gary Rogers, probably as close as the hosts have come to unlocking this Sligo defence.
Yellow Card
Substitution
Yellow Card
Has the feel of a training exercise now as Sligo dominate and Glentoran struugle to get out of their own half. Lynch and Cawley are dominating the centre of the pitch for Sligo.
Substitution
Sligo making the brighter start here in the second half but all they have to show for it is a corner so far.
Substitution
SECOND HALF
Back underway at the Oval
HALF TIME
Half time at the Oval and Sligo are comfortably on top here and can look forward to the semi-final with Glentoran struggling to break them down.
Coming up to half time and Sligo are showing no sign of conceding with Evan McMillan and Jeff Henderson controlling things at the back for the visitors.
Glentoran are trying hard to get a goal but Sligo look pretty comfortable defensively and are limitting the opposition to a few long range strikes. Inevitably some holes are appearing in the Glens defence and Sligo look likely to capitalise every time they move forward, with Cretaro a constant menace.
GOAL!
Raffaele Cretaro scores for Sligo Rovers. Cretaro makes up for his earlier mistake by grabbing Sligo's second as he again races through on goal and this time makes no mistake as he slides the ball past the onrushing Hogg.
After a lively start it has calmed down here at the Oval and with Glentoran needing to score seven to go through it is pretty safe to assume that Sligo will progress. The home side are playing for pride and they are pressing when they can to give their fans something to cheer about but it looks like its going to be a long evening for them.
Glentoran enjoy their first spell of pressure as, first, John McGuigan tries his luck with a shot and then Martin Murray draws a good save from Gary Rogers.
GOAL!
Lee Lynch scores for Sligo Rovers. Great strike from Lynch as he blasts the ball past the despairing dive of Aaron Hogg from 30 yards.
Cretaro is through again but this time he takes the shot ealy and misses.
What a miss! Raf Cretaro is put clean through on goal and when the goalkeeper parries his first attempt the ball rebounds kindly for the Sligo striker and from eleven yards with an open goal he hits the post and the ball crosses the goalmouth and goes wide. Shocking miss!
GAME ON!
Underway at Glentoran.
The teams are on the pitch and it has to be said that the crowd is very sparse with less than 100 peoplw in the stands. Almost ready to kick off.
Sligo make six changes from the side that ran out 5-0 winners in the Showgrounds last week while the Glens make five changes. Glentoran played out a 0-0 with Ballymena at the weekend and their form of late is good and went through the month of February unbeaten with Eddie Patterson winning the manager of the month and Stephen Carson picking up the player of the month award, making Sligo's win last week all the more impressive.
Evening everybody and welcome to a chilly East Belfast for the second leg of Sligo Rovers quarter-final clash with Glentoran. I'm John McCormack and I'll be guiding you through tonight's events. Team sheets are just in so I will upload and be with you in a bit.