Zach Barr celebrates hitting Portadown's winner
Bangor's Scott McArthur sees a shot closed down by Berti Brandon Diau
Zach Barr is convinced that Portadown can write another chapter in their thrilling cup fairytale story this season, just by taking a look around the Shamrock Park dressing room — and that it can go hand-in-hand with achieving their promotion dream.
One of seven players Niall Currie added to his squad in January, Barr augmented his growing reputation with Ports fans by netting both goals as they beat Bangor 2-1 to progress to the quarter-finals of the Clearer Water Irish Cup.
With the Mid Ulster Cup already adorning the trophy cabinet and a date with Linfield in the Final of the BetMcLean Cup on the horizon, victory over Bangor extended Portadown’s winning run in knockout competitions this season to a perfect 10 — with seven of those coming against Premiership opposition.
Bangor goalkeeper James Taylor takes an unorthodox approach to denying Zach Barr
Now the mission is to turn that up to 11 when they face Cliftonville in the last eight of the Irish Cup — and Barr isn’t about to consider beating the Premiership title chasers as a mission impossible.
“We don’t fear anyone,” said Barr, who opened the scoring with only six minutes gone.
After Ben Arthurs levelled midway through the first-half, Barr then heading home the winner 11 minutes from time.
“The only people that we fear is ourselves, if we don’t bring it on the day. With the players that we have, the quality that we know that we have, if we turn up, we can turn over anybody.
“Our bread and butter is the League and everyone knows that. We aren’t taking the cups lightly, or any game.
“Our squad is quality, we have quality players coming off the bench
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