Cristian Montano’s wee boy was half right when he gave him a Saturday morning prediction
Cristian Montano celebrates his first goal(Image: SNS Group)
Cristian Montano revealed his wee boy had a premonition he was going to net against Celtic – and that Livingston were going to dump the Hoops.
Little Nico was half right.
But while Montano admits he was delighted to hold up his goalscoring end of the bargain, he would far rather have swapped it for the three points.
The rock bottom Lions came roaring out the traps with left back Montano netting twice – his first goals of the season – in the opening eight minutes.
Celtic fought back for the points to leave David Martindale’s men winless in 16 league games and four points from safety at the bottom ahead of Tuesday’s visit of Dundee United.
And Montano said: “It was a weird one because when I was having a bath at home on Saturday morning, my little boy Nico came in.
“He said, ‘I have a good feeling about today, dad. You are going to score’.
“Nico has never really done that before but he stormed in and said I would score and we would win.
“He was right on one of them and when I scored, that’s all I could think of. I didn’t know what to do.
“When I scored the second goal, I was thinking ‘Oh my God…what’s going on?’
Cristian Montano celebrates his second of the match(Image: SNS Group)
“Nico watched the game from home and he sent me a video of him screaming the house down when I scored!
“I felt very confident and positive about the game. When I heard him say that, it made me believe a little bit more and it was good to get two goals. But I would rather not have scored if we’d been able to get three points.
“It’s a tough pill to swallow. We need to take belief from what we did against Celtic. We went toe to toe with them and scored two really good goals.
“I feel like this is the best football we have played since I have been at Livingston. If we have the belief, energy and togetherness, hopefully it will turn.”