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Cliftonville 0-4 Glentoran

Cliftonville slumped to a heavy defeat at the hands of Glentoran in this evening’s Sports Direct Premiership clash at Solitude.

While Brian Healy and Ryan Curran threatened for the Reds in the first-half, the visitors had gone close through Daniel Amos and Pat Hoban before the second period began with Lewis Ridd making a fine stop to deny Ross Clarke.

The deadlock was broken just past the hour when Joe Toole’s foul on Aaron McEneff resulted in a penalty kick that Hoban converted, while Jordan Stewart’s close-range finish put the Glens firmly in control of proceedings.

Stewart curled home to make it 3-0 with a quarter of an hour remaining and Hoban blasted in a fourth in injury-time ahead of Rory Hale going close to registering a consolation with a strike that came back off the crossbar.

Cliftonville: Ridd, Pepper, Addis, Hale, Curran (Carroll, 70 mins), Leppard, Conlan (Hawthorne, 75 mins), Glynn, Toole (Robertson, 70 mins), McStravick (Sheridan, 56 mins), Healy (Gormley, 56 mins). Unused subs: Morrison, A Kelly.