Tony Watt continued his great scoring run by finding the net last night against Anderlecht as Lierse pulled off a surprise 2-0 win.
Starting the match 23 points behind the Brussels club Lierse took the lead in the 25th minute from Mbaye Diagne. Anderlecht pushed hard for an equaliser but in the 65th minute Watt turned a half chance into a goal shooting home from 20 yards out with his fifth goal in four matches since Christmas.
The win lifts Lierse upto 10th place in the 16 team Jupiler League- seven points clear of the relegation zone.
After taking a little time to adjust to the change in environment Watt seems much happier in Belgium as he admitted after the match.
“My aim is to score as many goals as possible and try to help Lierse to take maximum points,” the striker said. “I feel good in Belgium and who knows, maybe I’ll stay longer than expected. in this country. I’m happy. “
Even happier was coach Stanley Menzo after Lierse’ first win over Anderlecht in 13 years.
The Lierse coach said: “Especially in the first half we played close to perfection, we played good football and bothered a great side like Anderlecht.”
Next Saturday Lierse are away to bottom of the table Mons.
6 min 15 sec for Tony’s goal
The success of Watt on loan has led to a flood of young Celtic players moving out for the remainder of the season with four joining Scottish Championship sides.
Joe Chalmers and Stuart Findlay could be in direct opposition when Falkirk host Morton while Mikey Miller could de in direct opposition to Paul George when Dumbarton travel to meet Hamilton Accies.
Well done Tony Bhoy.
Glad to see you doing well.
HH
Don’t feel bad I talk to myself too sometimes 😉
I never talk to myself.
Yes you do.
No I dont.
Haw haw haw.
Doing well at the moment,with a bit of luck things are changing for the better for Tony.Keep it up.
Looks fitter and sharper, time he grew up and realise the chance he has at the hoops, hail hail.
5 league goals since Christmas.Samaras 4,
Pukki 4,Stokes 7 league goals ALL SEASON.
Why didn”t we (seriously) put Samaras or
Pukki,or both,on loan to Lierse,and bring
Tony back.
As we have no striking partnership,IMO,
Watt and Griffiths could be a scoring double act in the making.
In our league,these 2 could terrorise defences.Here’s hoping they get the chance to play together next season.
Yeah totally agree watt and griffiths all the way 50+ goals combined HH
Got to wait to see if he is mature enough before bringing him back
Tony’s loan to Lierse could turn out to be the making of him. I hope so. Invaluable experience.
Tony Watt for me is potentially the best striker on our books. Watching the goal made me laugh cause in scotland he would have got booked for standing on advert hoarding then sent off for blessing himself. That is this bigoted country of ours.
We need to get this lad back and playing regularly
folk saying why didn’t we keep tony etc.. and pointing out that others haven’t performed which is fine. but i think tony needed needed this, to play regularly and understand what it takes to be a footballer generally. if he comes back and does the same for celtic then lenny has pulled a masterstroke sending him to lierse. we all heard the rumours about the boy and his attitude etc.. his age possibly makes it excusable, but what matters is he comes back knuckles down and proves he has what it takes to be a celtic striker. you don’t have to be john park to see the lad has the talent lets hope he has the heid, we all want him to succeed at celtic, he is after all one of our own. keep it going tony bhoy. HH
Well done Tony keep scoring Then you be back at Parkhead sooner that later Hail Hail JMJ
Watt are we waiting for
Straight onto to easyjet and get his flight home booked Lenny
Tony macoroni.
Haw haw haw