In stark contrast to Celtic supporters’ general discontent regarding the club’s governance, the large travelling contingent in Maryhill serenaded the players after the full-time whistle, with Tounekti front and centre.<\/p>\n
He was undoubtedly Celtic’s star turn at Firhill and plaudits flowed for the Norway-born winger.<\/p>\n
“He was brilliant,” former Celtic defender Charlie Mulgrew said on Premier Sports. <\/p>\n
“The goal was a touch of class and he’s a great find for Celtic. They would just wish they got him in before the Kairat game.”<\/p>\n
Another former Celtic hero was intrigued by how Tounekti combined with another summer arrival in Kieran Tierney, back at Celtic for a second spell.<\/p>\n
“The interesting thing for me is Tierney’s relationship with Tounetki. I think Tierney wants to be wide and high,” Pat Bonner said on Sportsound.<\/p>\n
“When you have a winger ahead of you, you can’t occupy that space too often. We’ve seen Tounetki wants to get the ball every single time and take people on.<\/p>\n
“That means Tierney can overlap, he can link in and support him.”<\/p>\n
Tierney himself was similarly complimentary about his new partner down the left-hand side.<\/p>\n
“It feels like he’s been here ages,” the Scotland defender said.<\/p>\n
“The debut at Killie was unbelievable – that’s a tough place to go and you see how well he’s settled in.<\/p>\n
“It’s credit to him and how he’s adapted. It’s the first time I’ve started with him and it was a joy to play with him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In stark contrast to Celtic supporters’ general discontent regarding the club’s governance, the large travelling contingent in Maryhill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-152226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}