Carrick Rangers manager Stuart King said Glentoran should have been reduced to 10 men before his side had Kurtis Forsythe sent off in their 3-2 Irish Premiership home defeat at Taylors Avenue.

King was unhappy that Glentoran defender Marcus Kane only received a yellow card in the 32nd minute for a lunging tackle on Carrick’s Joe Crowe, who had to go off after attempting to run off the effects of the challenge.

Forsythe was then sent off before the interval after being deemed to have committed two yellow-card offences on Jonny Russell in a four-minute period.

Asked whether he was “disappointed” by Forsythe’s red card, King replied: “I am. That’s all I’ve got to say on it.”

King was a little more animated about Kane’s tackle on Crowe.

“There’s a straight red card in my opinion in the 32nd minute before we went down to 10 men.

“I don’t want to talk about referees all season. I want to talk about my own lads and what they can do to affect games. We have made errors and misjudged things which basically cost us in the end.”

King said his team had performed “really well” but were undone by “individual errors”.

“Even when we went down to 10 men and then nine men, we gave it a real go good.

“They’ve celebrated as if they’ve won the league tonight but that’s football. Fair play to them. They’ve won a game that we really performed at a high level in especially when we went down to 10 men. It’s disappointing.”