Celtic got here from behind to beat Athletic Bilbao 3-2 in James Forrest’s testimonial match.
Celtic had been outplayed within the opening interval and trailed 2-1 earlier than supervisor Brendan Rodgers switched his complete staff for the second half, and targets from Alexandro Bernabei and David Turnbull added to Reo Hatate’s first-half effort.
About 42,000 followers had been inside Celtic Park to honour Forrest, who has scored 101 targets in 467 aggressive appearances and received 22 trophies for the membership.
Nonetheless, only some hundred supporters occupied the standing part, which is generally frequented by the Inexperienced Brigade ultras. These followers had been among the many most important of Rodgers for becoming a member of Leicester.
Rodgers acquired a heat reception when he was re-introduced to the Celtic help forward of his first look at Parkhead since returning to the membership for the profit match, which noticed a “important proportion” of proceeds promised to 2 charities, Kilbryde Hospice and Celtic FC Basis.
Cameron Carter-Vickers made his first begin since present process knee surgical procedure whereas Maik Nawrocki and Hyeok-kyu Kwon had been handed Parkhead debuts.
The guests took the lead inside 90 seconds after Hatate gave the ball away and was clinically punished by Unai Gomez from 25 yards.
The hosts continued to current Bilbao with alternatives from unfastened passes and Hatate was lucky to not present one other purpose earlier than levelling out of the blue within the thirty sixth minute when he picked up a unfastened ball and curled in a superb left-footed end from 20 yards.
The guests had been again in entrance inside seconds of the restart. Proper-back Tomoki Iwata misplaced possession on the sting of the field after bringing down a excessive diagonal ball and was punished in model by Iker Muniain.
Solely Forrest got here again out after the interval however simply till the forty ninth minute, when the followers had been handed the prospect to offer him one other ovation as he was changed by Liel Abada. Summer time signings Hyun-jun Yang and Odin Thiago Holm had been among the many half-time substitutes.
Bernabei equalised halfway via the half after linking up nicely with second-half captain Turnbull and Matt O’Riley, and the previous Motherwell midfielder quickly swept dwelling from Oh Hyeon-gyu’s cutback.
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