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Portadown 2-0 Cliftonville

Cliftonville never recovered from a poor start at Shamrock Park, where goals in either half earned full points for Portadown this afternoon.

Eamon Fyfe put the hosts ahead inside two minutes with a firm blast that deceived goalkeeper Lewis Ridd and, after a first-half in which Eric McWoods and Arran Pettifer came closest to fashioning equalisers, the Reds began the second period with a Rory Hale blast that came back off the crossbar.

Within minutes of that effort, however, the Ports doubled their advantage when Josh Ukek picked his spot from range with a strike that killed the contest, with neither side producing any sort of spark thereafter.

Cliftonville: Ridd, Casey, Addis, McGuinness (Glynn, 64 mins), Lowe, Pettifer (Hale, 46 mins), Pepper, Stewart, Parsons (Madden, 56 mins), McWoods (Donnelly, 56 mins), Corrigan (Gormley, 56 mins). Unused subs: Odumosu, Keaney.