Neil Lennon was delighted to see James Forrest on the scoresheet as Celtic beat Raith Rovers 3-0 to advance into the last eight of the Scottish Cup.
Forrest replaced Tony Watt on the hour mark and put the tie beyond the First Division side with the crucial second goal in the 83rd minute.
Lennon has guided Forrest through from the development squad into the Champions League and is looking forward to seeing how the youngster fares against Juventus.
“James is a wonderful player and he makes us better,” the Celtic boss said. “He’s been dieing to get back into the team, in his last three appearances he’s scored two goals.
“In each appearance he’s been marvellous, he’s worked really hard in training and you can see what a great player he is.
“He has got so much ahead of him, he’s a throwback to the players that we like, those in the tradition of the club like Johnstone and Provan. Jamesy gets people off their seats.”
Looking overall at the win over Raith the Celtic boss said: “We had to play a little bit more direct because the pitch was soft and cutting up, that made it difficult to play through midfield.
“We had to be patient, I thought that we controlled the game. We dominated the first half without being brilliant in the final third. We felt that once we got the first goal the game would open up and that’s what happened.”
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Wonder who we’ll get AWAY in the draw??
Monti its luck of the draw there’s no hot/cold balls but saying that a fancy us to get united or hibs away lol HH
As long as we don’t get Sevco which we can’t now who cares bring it in.
A would love a go at the zombies just have to wait till next season HH
the weeman done well when he came on thought Charlie and watt where brutal in the 1st half and not much better in the 2nd time for Stokesy to start with hooper HH
OFF TOPIC. A was at the game today and never heard it but did anybody hear any songs abt gazza. The zombies are going mental abt it but a think there talkin shit as usual HH
I was out for a pint with Gazza at the time,left before him tho lol