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Watt double helps Lierse to away win

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Tony Watt newsTwo goals from Tony Watt helped Lierse to a valuable 4-3 win away to Kortrijk tonight.

The on-loan striker scored a 23rd minute equalised for Stanley Menzo’s side then increased their lead seven minutes after the break after Rachid Bourabia had put the visitors ahead two minutes after Watt’s equaliser.

Kortrijk had started the match 11 points ahead of Lierse but with a crucial away win Watt and his team-mates are getting closer to mid-table safety.

Midway through the second half Kortrijk pulled a goal back but 15 minutes from time Bourabia scored again to secure an away win.

Watt spend some time training with Celtic during the Belgian winter break but returned to Lierse after talks with Neil Lennon.

With four goals in his last three appearances his stock is rising by the game as he adjusts to life away from the comforts of Celtic Park.

While Watt was helping his side to victory it was a less successful day for some of Celtic’s other loan stars.

Callum McGregor scored from a free-kick on his return to Notts County but it provided little in the way of consolation with Walsall running out 5-1 victors.

Bahrudin Atajic managed just two minutes as a late substitute in Shrewsbury’s 3-1 defeat away to Swindon which leaves the club third bottom of League One.

Paul George was a 50th minute substitute for Hamilton Accies with the team trailing Cowdenbeath by four goals to nil.

The Irishman helped his new club pull three goals back, including a penalty from James Keatings, but the home side were unable to snatch a point.

In the SPFL Premiership Jackson Irvine helped Kilmarnock to a 2-0 win over Inverness Caley Thistle which takes the Ayrshire side to just three points behind Hibs in eighth place.

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  • peter says:

    Any chance we could bring Tony back as
    OUR main striker ?

    4 goals in 3 games,Samaras has scored
    4 goals ALL season.
    With Pukki and Balde, not having reached
    these dizzy heights.
    And Stokes, 7 league goals not much to
    write home about either.

    Watch us rely on Commons, yet again,
    tomorrow !!

  • Markiebhoy says:

    Hailhailcfc

  • Aldo says:

    A striker that bangs in goals in crucial matches….is that no what we need?

  • WJ says:

    Hopefully bring that kind of form back to Paradise with him.. HH

  • Patrick Burns says:

    He could be the man if he puts his mind to it.

  • Scott Mackenzie says:

    a double? it looked like a hatrick to me.

  • mark says:

    The treatment of Tony watt from Celtic and Billy stark with the under 21s is a total and utter disgrace… They seem to forget he is only 18. They should have protected him, took him under there wing. if he succeeds it will be down to him and not Celtic… Good luck Tony, f**k them all!!

  • Scott Mackenzie says:

    he looked really really good in that video. if he keeps it up we wont have to buy a striker, just bring him back, play him as an actual striker and enjoy the goals flying in.

  • Jones says:

    why are we going for Griffiths when we’ve got this guy?

    I really don’t understand Lennon and his backroom team sometimes. With the signings of Bangura, Murphy, Brozek, Kapo, Miku and Lassad outweighing the good (Hooper basically and Stokes to a lesser extent), you’ve got to wonder if they know how to spot a goalscorer. The jury is obviously still out on Teemu Pukki, but Watt looks like he’s got all the attributes to be a great Celtic striker.

    I agree with Mark (apart from the f**k them all part ;), it seems someone like James Forrest can do no wrong in Lennon’s eyes, even when he’s not performing. I would love to see what Tony could do if he was afforded the same chances and managerial mollycoddling.

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