Niall Currie 'looking for accountability' after 'some baffling situations' in Glentoran defeat
Portadown manager Niall Currie insists he’s “looking for accountability” after “some baffling situations” during his side’s 2-1 Premiership defeat to Glentoran.
Currie’s men went ahead at The Oval following Eamon Fyfe’s opener – the Ports striker bringing his league goal tally for the campaign to nine – but his effort was cancelled out on the stroke of half-time by MJ Kamson-Kamara.
Glentoran were awarded a second half penalty when Aaron McCarey brought down Liam Burt with Pat Hoban making no mistake from the spot to claim maximum points.
Currie was left frustrated with situations relating to both Glentoran goals and labelled certain decisions as “confusing”.
"We needed to be better than we were against Glenavon and the players were,” he told the club’s media channel. “We had a couple of situations offensively we could have done better with.
"The first (Glentoran) goal is from a brilliant tackle from Divin Isamala, one of the best tackles I've seen, clean as a whistle, JJ (Jordan Jenkins) kicks the bottom of his foot and Divin is booked.
"Two phases later, Glentoran get their goal...some confusing things going on.
"Eamon Fyfe is sitting with an elbow to the face and they're allowed to go from their 18 to our box for a penalty kick and then we're talking about the match being stopped for rib and shoulder injuries...I thought if there was a head injury the game should be stopped.
"It's small margins and small things matter. Some of the decisions were baffling, but you have to be very careful these days.
"You're looking for accountability and hopefully we get accountability from who was watching the game tonight...best leaving that there, but there were some baffling situations going on.”
After enduring a run of one win across six Premiership matches, Glentoran have now won three on the trot as they look to maintain pressure on high-flying Larne and Coleraine.
While proud of his side’s performance in East Belfast, Currie feels Portadown’s next progression step should be turning positive showings into Premiership points in their bid to climb the table.
"The boys were super tonight to a man,” added Currie. “I thought we were every bit as good as Glentoran over the 90 minutes and created as many chances as they did in the game as well.
"I don't think we deserved to come out of the game with nothing. It's about the next progression...we have came down and been every bit as good as Glentoran, and we need to turn the next progression of ours into coming away with something.
"We've a very disappointed changing room with the effort everybody put in, hugely disappointed. I'm very proud of them in many ways to come down here and put that performance in."