The Visitors Nearly opened the scoring as early as the first minute, but McKinstry fired wide with only Gough to beat, the Glens dominated the first half but hadn't the finishing touch against a ten man packed Armagh Defence who clearly came to Belfast to defend and who could blame them after their counter attacks troubled the Glens on Saturday. The Glens wasted a number of chances in the first 45 minutes through Hamill, Gilzean, Russell, Elliott, and Batey who all either fired wide or over the bar, never really troubling Brian Hutchinson in goal, until the 44th minute when a cross from the right from Nixon was missed by everyone and Scott Young was there at the back post to squeeze his shot past the on diving Hutchinson for his 13th goal of the season. Only two minutes later the Glens capitalised on the disappointed Armagh defence when Stuart Elliott Picked the ball up on the left touchline from the throw in and his mazy run wasn't dealt with properly and he danced into the box and fired an unstoppable shot at Hutchinson who parried the shot which was too powerful for him into the back of the net, No doubt the Glens had deserved the lead, it was just surprising that they had to wait so long in a dyer first half performance.
Half Time Glentoran 2 Armagh City 0
Armagh brought on their 3rd and last sub at Half time all withdrawing through injury or could they not handle the pace. Early on in the half Chris Walker came on for Scott Young to get a run out for Saturday and his replacement for the night and in fact the last few games Paul Leeman was promoted into the midfield. The Glens continued to force back the Armagh defence looking for the killer goal and had to wait until 20 minutes from time when John Kennedy belted down the left wing and his superb cross was straight onto Ian Gilzean's head for a easy header past Hutchinson for his9th goal for the Glens. Tim McCann was next to enter the game when he replaced Brian Russell, and Davey Rainey who remarkably recovered from saturdays nasty injury at Armagh and he replaces goal scored Ian Gilzean. Stuart Elliott then thought he had scored his 2nd of the game when Kennedy did well again and his flying cross was well headed home by Elliott but the Linesman had signalled very late that there was an offside before Elliott finished off the cross. Rainey made an immediate impact just like Saturday going on mazy runs and could have a hat trick. His first chance fell to him from 20 yards when his rasping drive was well stopped by the Keeper he then scored his deserved goal when he was wide on the left and everyone expected the cross but he saw Hutchinson off his line and squeezed his shot into the top corner for a great finish, he then went on a run and instead of shooting himself he passed to Elliott who's mis hit shot was well stopped by the keeper.
Full Time Glentoran 4 Armagh City 0
Gough 6, Nixon 7, Kennedy 7, Leeman 7, McCombe 7, Young 7, Russell 6, Hamill 7, Gilzean 7, Batey 6, Elliott 8 Subs McCann 7, Walker 6, Rainey 7
Referee John Ferry 6
Man of the Match Stuart Elliott