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Magilton wants 'character' and 'tenacity' from Reds
Jim Magilton has called on the Cliftonville support to rally behind his team for Tuesday's game against Larne at Solitude (19:45 BST, live on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website).The Reds got on the board with a 0-0 draw away to Coleraine on Saturday, but saw Rhyss Campbell and Luke Conlan depart with injuries which leaves them doubts for the visit of the had a rest weekend following Thursday's trip to the Azores for their Conference League qualifier second leg against Santa Clara, which proved to be Nathan Rooney's last game in charge. Speaking before Rooney departed Larne on Monday, Magilton said he was impressed with their performance in a scoreless draw away from home and has urged his players to step it up a level from Saturday's draw against the Bannsiders."They (Larne) are an outstanding team, had a wonderful result in Europe in terms of away performance," he told BBC Sport NI."They are going to be fresh and ready for us, but so will we. We're at home, we have to go again and show the same sort of character we showed today and the same tenacity. We have to play better with the ball because we have quality players."We are going to need the backing of our supporters because there will be a few tired bodies."Larne have had the upper hand recently against Cliftonville, winning four of the past league encounters. The Reds, however, came out on top when they last locked horns in January's BetMcLean Cup semi-final. LAST FIVE IRISH PREMIERSHIP MEETINGSLarne 2-0 Cliftonville (10 January 2025)Larne 1-1 Cliftonville (1 December 2024)Cliftonville 1-3 Larne (27 September 2024)Larne 8-1 Cliftonville (13 April 2024)Cliftonville 0-2 Larne (2 April 2024)
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Currie wants Ports to make Shamrock Park a 'fortress'
Niall Currie has urged his Portadown players to make Shamrock Park a "fortress" as they prepare to host Ballymena United on Tuesday (19:45 BST).The Ports banked their first points of the new campaign with an impressive 4-1 win away to Dungannon Swifts with Eamon Fyfe and Joshua Ukek on target in the first half before a second half brace from Jordan Gibson sealed win followed an opening day home loss against Glentoran and Currie is keen of replicating last year's form at Shamrock Park when they lost in the league just four sat out the weekend as their game against Linfield was postponed, but the Portadown manager noted their opening win away to Glenavon and wary of the threat of Jim Ervin's side."We're delighted to get off the mark," he told BBC Sport NI following Saturday's win."Sometimes you look at the fixtures and wonder where the first points are going to come from, so this was really pleasing."Ballymena are up next, and they've started strongly with a win over Glenavon. It'll be another tough game, no question."But the key for us is Shamrock Park. Last year, we made it a difficult place for teams to come, and that's exactly what we want to do again. We want to create a fortress here, somewhere nobody wants to visit."
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Performances key for Bangor boss Feeney
Bangor manager Lee Feeney says the nature of his side's performances in their opening two matches of the Irish Premiership season have been pleasing for year's Championship winners began life in the top flight with a 3-1 win over Cliftonville at Clandeboye but were edged out 1-0 by Glentoran at the Oval on up for Feeney's charges is the visit of Crusaders on Tuesday night."The big thing for me is performances. The last two games we have had good performances and that's important to me. "If you can pick up points on the way then that's even better. We'll take the positives, learn from it and grow."I'm really happy with the attitude of the players and proud of the performances they put in."We'll look forward to Crusaders coming to Clandeboye on Tuesday night, which will be another very tough game."Bangor defended resolutely for much of the weekend meeting with the Glens but Ryan Cooney nipped in to score the winner after Kyle Owens' attempted back-pass fell short."It was unfortunate the way we lost with the goal we conceded."They put us under pressure, especially in the first half, but I thought we defended really, really well."We had a good shape, we knew we would have to do that today. Big pitch, we had to try and make it as small as we could. "They have quality all over the park. They were able to play through the thirds, get it wide, so we had to work really, really hard to try and keep the clean sheet."
