
Dembele & Sinclair react to Tierney's Celtic homecoming
It didn't take Tierney long to get back into the groove. Indeed, for the last of Celtic's goals in the 4-0 victory, he beat his man on the left before hanging up a fine cross for Liam Scales to nod home from.
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On Instagram, Celtic posted a video of Tierney coming on, which Dembele and Sinclair both commented on.
The French striker added a heart-eyes emoji '😍', as Sinclair reacted with two hands up '🙌🏽 🙌🏽'. Erik Sviatchenko simply wrote 'Goosebumps'.
Speaking after the match, Tierney admitted he got rather emotional when he came off the bench in place of Hayato Inamura.
He told Celtic TV: "I didn't know what to expect. That was just brilliant. [I was] quite emotional actually, going on to the park like that. A great day for me.
"They're [Newcastle] a good team. It just shows, the quality we've got, when we play like that, we can give anyone a game.
"And the goals we scored were brilliant today."

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