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Glentoran hoping for positive news on Harry Murphy injury

Glentoran are hoping for positive news with regards to Harry Murphy's injury after the young defender was stretchered off in the win over Crusaders on Saturday.

The centre-back went down in pain as he attempted to close down Adam Lecky near the end of the first half at Seaview.

After receiving treatment on the pitch Murphy was stretchered off before leaving the ground on crutches after the game with his right knee heavily strapped.

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The teenager's parents were both watching on from the stands, with his father Darren on co-commentary for the BBC during the game.

Speaking after the game Glens boss Rodney McAree said they were hoping for some positive news.

"Harry felt something on the outside of his knee," he said.

"He said he felt something pop but he wasn't in a great deal of pain so hopefully it's not as bad as first feared."

Glentoran went into Saturday's game with an outside chance of claiming second spot.

They need to see off the Crues and hope Linfield stumbled at Cliftonville.

In the end both the Big Two finished off their regular season with victories with the Blues claiming an automatic European spot while the Glens drop into the play-offs.

McAree was happy his side did their job, but looked at the costly points dropped earlier in the season.

"You'll always look at matches within the run of fixtures you've had and you'll regret results," he said.

"We took one point out of six at home to Glenavon, and ultimately if we had done a bit more in those two games it could have been different.

"But every club will look at fixtures and results that went against them over the course of the season.

"But I think the boys have done exceptionally well since our game away at Newry in the middle of January.

"We asked them to put themselves in a position where they could maybe ask a question or put themselves in the picture where they could maybe sneak into Europe automatically and push close to the top of the table.

"We did that, we took it to the last game of the season but unfortunately Linfield have gone and done their job and congratulations to them."

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