{"id":373387,"date":"2025-12-28T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:29:11","slug":"magilton-wants-reds-response-to-boxing-day-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373387\/","title":{"rendered":"Magilton wants Reds response to Boxing Day loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cliftonville boss Jim Magilton says his team must be up for the challenge of facing a &#8220;top-class&#8221; Larne side at Inver Park on Tuesday (19:45 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The Reds&#8217; recent eight-game unbeaten run in the league was ended by a 2-1 defeat by Crusaders at Solitude on Boxing Day, their sixth loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They now face a trip to the league leaders, who are unbeaten in their last 11 league games and Magilton is urging his players to show a response to their disappointing display against the Crues on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Larne are a top-class side and we know going down there it is always a difficult game; we have to be ready and match them and come out with a bit more,&#8221; he told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing you can never be done on is work ethic, attitude, and application \u2013 and [on Boxing Day], we were.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Magilton has demanded more from his side than they showed at Solitude against the Crues as they aim to get back to winning ways and stay in the top six.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t work hard enough without the ball or with it. We were nowhere near our levels; we looked lethargic and there were a lot of poor performances [on Friday],&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to lick our wounds and go again, that wasn&#8217;t acceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766939351_677_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cliftonville boss Jim Magilton says his team must be up for the challenge of facing a &#8220;top-class&#8221; Larne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,158652,159450,159449,82,20696],"class_list":{"0":"post-373387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-crues","12":"tag-inver-park","13":"tag-jim-magilton","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-reds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}