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'Everything seemed to go our way' - O'Rourke on Crues win

Crusaders defender Jarlath O'Rourke said that his side can "take a lot of confidence" from their 4-0 victory against Loughgall at Lakeview Park.

O'Rourke opened the scoring for the Crues, with Ross Clarke, Jordan Forsythe and Stewart Nixon also getting on the scoresheet.

And O'Rourke was pleased with their ruthlessness in the second half as they got back to winning ways following a run of three consecutive defeats.

"The last few games we haven't scored but everything seemed to go our way and four different scorers so hopefully that is a sign of things to come," he told BBC Sport NI.

"The last three games we haven't played overly bad, but we have a lot of confidence to take from that win, it's massive."

O'Rourke explained that manager Declan Caddell didn't deliver a rousing half-time team talk but rather urged them to keep doing what they were doing and the goals would come.

"First half was a tough game, going in 0-0 we knew we were in a better position than the last few games where we were 1-0 down, we gave ourselves the chance to win it," O'Rourke continued.

"[The message at half-time] was probably to keep going, we played a bit more attacking second half, we missed a couple of chances early on but when we got the first goal it gave us confidence to keep going."