Warren Feeney’s delight as Glentoran recover from first-half slip-up at Dungannon

Dungannon Swifts 1 Glentoran 2

Glentoran's Junior Ogedi-Uzokwe celebrates his goal during today's game at Stangmore Park

On a day when Warren Feeney slipped up, his Glentoran players didn’t, staging a spirited second-half comeback to beat 10-man Dungannon Swifts.

Goals from Marcus Kane and Junior settled an incident-packed match at Stangmore Park.

For an hour, it seemed they might stumble here — just as their manager had when he tried to control a dropping ball on the touchline, only to theatrically fall over.

Feeney saw the funny side then, but admitted he had been far from amused at his players’ first-half performance.

He revealed that a half-time dressing down kick-started their comeback.

“In the first-half, we were poor, we were sluggish, we didn’t get going. We went through the motions and probably showed them too much respect,” he said.

“I went in at half-time and had a few words with them, in a positive way, but also told them what I expect.

“I changed the shape and I thought even when they had 11 men, coming out in the second-half, it was the reaction I wanted and I thought we were very dominant.”

Dungannon's Caolan Marron is sent off by referee Declan Hassan

The Glens had trailed to Ben Gallagher’s penalty in first-half stoppage time.

Gallagher wasted a big chance to make it 2-0, before Kane headed the visitors level with an hour gone.

The Swifts lost Caolan Marron to a red card, before Junior won it six minutes from the end.

Asked what he said at hal-time, Feeney added: “I told them it wasn’t a Glentoran performance.

“You have to run, you have to show desire. There is great quality here, but if you don’t do the basics in football, you will get found out, and I said that to them. You have to do the right