Dungannon were denied an early lead by the woodwork when Galvin’s low effort from Brandon Bermingham’s cross pinged off the right-hand post.
There was an early breakthrough though with David Healy’s side opening the scoring through their first chance of the game after Cooper rounded stopper Alex Henderson, who had come off his line to try and clear the ball, and played the ball back for Morrison to fire home.
Linfield would then have an effort of their own denied by the woodwork with Cooper’s thunderous effort from the edge of the box striking the inside of the post.
Shortly after, Alex Henderson was called into action to deny Linfield from extending their lead with the young stopper making a diving save to stop Matthew Fitzpatrick’s header from nestling into the bottom corner.
Dungannon nearly levelled the game almost instantly with Thomas Maguire’s effort denied by David Walsh.
The away side were awarded a penalty in the 44th minute after Dylan King brought down Fitzpatrick in the box with Cooper making no mistake with the resulting spot-kick, firing low past the outstretched Henderson.
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