Watt double helps Lierse to away win
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.