{"id":421346,"date":"2026-02-12T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421346\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:10:09","slug":"watch-on-loan-celtic-star-stephen-welsh-break-rangers-hearts-with-crucial-motherwell-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421346\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch on-loan Celtic star Stephen Welsh break Rangers&#8217; hearts with crucial Motherwell goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The title race has been blown wide open after Celtic beat Motherwell and Rangers dropped more points with their draw at 10-man Motherwell as a late Stephen Welsh strike causes Ibrox pain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/transfers\/how-close-stephen-welsh-was-from-being-denied-chance-to-leave-celtic-on-loan-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh returned to Motherwell<\/a> on loan from Celtic on transfer deadline day and that move has proved crucial to the Hoops\u2019 hopes of winning the title.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic<\/a> defender scored against Rangers with just minutes to go as Motherwell earned a creditable draw against the Ibrox club.<\/p>\n<p>           Will Stephen Welsh ever play for Celtic again? <\/p>\n<p class=\"grv-talking-point__subtitle\">Explain why in the comments<\/p>\n<p>Celtic fans can watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/stephen-welsh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh\u2019s<\/a> Motherwell goal below:<\/p>\n<p> Celtic beat Livingston to close the gap to Hearts and Rangers<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"718\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2253850973-1024x718.jpg\" alt=\"Rangers v Motherwell - William Hill Premiership\" \/>Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/match\/celtic-boss-martin-oneill-hails-alex-oxlade-chamberlains-wonder-goal-in-late-livingston-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic left it late again to beat Livingston<\/a> 2-1 after Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain turned in a debut that he will never forget at Parkhead.<\/p>\n<p>With the scores tied at 1-1 and Celtic running out of ideas, Oxlade-Chamberlain popped up in the 91st minute to curl in a superb goal to keep Celtic\u2019s title hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p>With six points separating Celtic from Hearts and just one point from Rangers, the Bhoys are still in a good place to successfully defend their title.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Welsh sums up late Motherwell goal vs Rangers<\/p>\n<p>Welsh was over the moon with his strike as the on loan Celtic defender said his team deserved a draw but were disappointed not to win.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh told Sky Sports, \u201cI think it just shows the fight that we\u2019ve got in the changing room. I thought it was really unlucky, and to be in the game, but I thought we\u2019d at least deserve something out of the game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f \u201cWe definitely deserved something from the game, although we are still disappointed with a point\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f \u201cWe fancy ourselves against anyone just now \u2013 it\u2019s a great feeling\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Paul McGinn and Man of the Match Stephen Welsh reflect on their draw with Rangers \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ANWOAyokV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1ANWOAyokV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotlandSky\/status\/2021709153790542306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 11, 2026<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>When asked if his Celtic teammates will be celebrating his goal, Welsh replied, \u201cAye, I think they will be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great moment and it was good to chip in with the goal when the strikers aren\u2019t getting them on the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, delighted with the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Celtic content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n<p>   <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The title race has been blown wide open after Celtic beat Motherwell and Rangers dropped more points with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,132436,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-stephen-welsh","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421346","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=421346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}