 Michael Halliday scored twice in Glentoran's 4-0 victory |
Glentoran maintained their two-point lead at the top of the Irish Premier League with a convincing 4-0 win at Newry City. It was Glentoran's seventh successive win in the Irish Premier League and their 10th in all competitions.
Michael Halliday scored the first and last for Roy Coyle's men with the others coming from Colin Nixon and a Conor Larkin own goal.
It was the second heavy home defeat in nine days for Roy McCreadie's Newry.
They crashed 5-2 against Loughgall on 12 November, and they were soon in trouble against the in-form Glens.
Just six minutes had gone when Halliday reacted quickest to a cross to shoot past rookie keeper Andrew Coleman.
A hesitant home defence was punished again on 17 minutes when Colin Nixon headed in from a Kevin Keegan corner.
Newry had three chances early in the second half but failed to make any count.
Then they went three down on the hour when the ball came off Larkin for an own goal after Coleman had saved a Chris Morgan shot.
Two minutes later Halliday stretched to divert a Morgan effort in to complete the 4-0 success.
Daily Mirror Irish Premier League
Ards 2-0 Omagh Town
Crusaders 0-1 Portadown Institute 3-1 Coleraine Larne 3-2 Dungannon Swifts Limavady 2-1 Ballymena Linfield 5-2 Lisburn Distillery Loughgall 0-0 Cliftonville Newry City 0-4 Glentoran
| 1 | Cliftonville | 23 | 16 | 43 |
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| 2 | Glentoran | 25 | 9 | 43 |
| 3 | Crusaders | 26 | 0 | 43 |
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| 4 | Linfield | 23 | 20 | 42 |
| 5 | Dungannon Swifts | 25 | 3 | 40 |
| 6 | Coleraine | 23 | 16 | 39 |
| 7 | Portadown | 23 | 16 | 31 |
| 8 | Glenavon | 24 | -10 | 30 |
| 9 | Newry | 25 | -20 | 27 |
| 10 | Ballymena | 24 | -8 | 26 |
| 11 | Institute | 22 | -12 | 20 |
| 12 | Lisburn Distillery | 23 | -32 | 14 |
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