The Whites showed their 'bouncebackability', (to coin a recent term from Phil Matthews!), after their midweek final loss to defeat the league leaders in this incident packed game.

It was Glentoran who dominated the early play, they had a goal disallowed for a foul on the keeper on 10 minutes, but the Whites held firm and Matthews made a telling stop to deny Darren Fitzgerald, the midfielder's follow-up going wide.

Darren Armour then showed what he was capable of as the Whites attacked and he dribbled past a couple of defenders before dragging a ground shot wide of the post.Armour then sent a super ball on into the path of Andrew Waterworth who was tackled from behind and Armour sent Morris the wrong way to put the Whites one up (15 mins).

Glentoran though had the lions share of possession but they found Phil Matthews in top class form. He pushed a Fitzgerald header onto the post before standing up to block a shot from Gary Hamilton.

The significant action though all occurred in the second half and again solid defending built the platform for this success.Andy Kilmartin cleared a Glentoran header of the line on 47 minutes and the Whites were two up moments later.The ball was swept out to Waterworth, he ran goalwards tracked by Glens skipper Paul Leeman, and his close range cross cum shot was deflected in at the near post by Leeman.

There were still more goals to come though and the Whites should have added more. Armour's cross fell to Waterworth in the centre of the box, the strikers shot unfortunately went straight at Elliott Morris who got a hand down to stop it. On 61 minutes Armour looked in on goal but Morris blocked the shot with his leg before gathering the loose ball.

The Glentoran support rallied on 70 minutes, when fullback Colin Nixon headed home from close range and a tight last twenty minutes were on the cards. Six minutes later the scales tilted towards Glentoran after fullback Stuart Thompson fouled Leeman and then got involved with the same player on the touchline. After the teams had settled down, Thompson was given a second yellow and departed the pitch.

The ten men looked up against it but on 78 minutes, Waterworth gave his side some breathing space. He looked to have lost out after once more running at the visitors defence but after an amazing blunder at the back between keeper Morris and a defender, the ball rolled free and he fired home.

It was a dramatic finish to a dramatic game, the Glens slipped to second after this defeat, the Whites still in eighth position and with nine points separating the top eight sides, there is everything to play for in the weeks ahead.