{"id":789976,"date":"2026-10-02T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:14:10","slug":"jota-makes-celtic-return-as-bounce-game-scoreline-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789976\/","title":{"rendered":"Jota makes Celtic return as bounce game scoreline revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Celtic winger was back on the grass in a specially arranged behind-closed-doors fixture at Lennoxtown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Celtic ran out 2-0 winners in the bounce game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jota reportedly featured for 45 minutes as he ramps up his recovery efforts for a first-team return. It&#8217;s thought Jota made it through the runout unscathed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16891517\/celtic-jota-returns-hoops-kid-steals-show\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=ScottishSunSportTwitter&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Scottish Sun<\/a>, Martin O&#8217;Neill used the match to hand game time to youth prospects as well as fringe players who are not still on international duty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And Celtic starlet Lucas Clearie caught the eye with a double. The 17-year-old, who signed a professional contract last year, netted twice in the friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtic winger was back on the grass in a specially arranged behind-closed-doors fixture at Lennoxtown. Celtic ran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789976","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=789976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}