Martin O’Neill has addressed the fitness of Celtic’s Kieran Tierney.
The left-back scored his sixth goal of the season in the first half, rocketing the ball into the roof of the net to double his side’s advantage.
But in the second period, he could be seen moving uncomfortably. Eventually, he was replaced by Marcelo Saracchi.
O’Neill has discussed his fitness after the game.
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Celtic boss Martin O’Neill says Kieran Tierney ‘should’ be okay
Asked if Tierney will be okay after the game, the interim Hoops boss said: “Yeah, Kieran was… I’m hoping that he’ll be all right.
“I think from the knock, I think he recovered.
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But it was just the general fatigue with him, I think, is still causing a bit of a problem. Great goal from him as well.
“Great goal. Great goal from a very, very fine player.”
On the team’s momentum in general, O’Neill said: “Well, good point [that things are coming together at the right time].
I think that we’ve got a tough task next week. Honestly, we can only treat each game on its merit, really, and that’s all it is. I think that we’ve battled, we’ve been battling strongly.
I think we showed some fine play today. We made some mistakes in the game, which could have been costly.
I thought there was a little period for 10 or 15 minutes, maybe less, it looked from where I am, remember, I’m negative, so it looked as if we were losing a bit of control.
“I thought that Falkirk played through us a few times, but I thought we got a grip of that. And I think the introduction of, I know it was only for the last 15 minutes, but I thought that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain brought a calmness to us at the end of it.
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“Just to settle us down again and take it on from there. But in terms of your point about the momentum, I don’t know.
“We’re still a long way from home.”
It’s a trip to Easter Road next for the Celts; O’Neill has already won there this season.
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