Fortune favours Celtic at Fir Park

SPL round-up: Marc-Antoine Fortune came off the bench to grab a dramatic winner as Tony Mowbray’s side beat Motherwell 3-2 at…

SPL round-up:Marc-Antoine Fortune came off the bench to grab a dramatic winner as Tony Mowbray's side beat Motherwell 3-2 at Fir Park.

It with his first goal since a double against St Johnstone in August and came at exactly the right time to stretch the visitors’ winning run to four games for the first time this season.

The €4.5million signing from Nancy, who has failed to impress since arriving at Parkhead, replaced Danny Fox and, with almost his first touch, fired a glorious shot past Motherwell goalkeeper John Ruddy.

Georgios Samaras’ 14th-minute opener had been cancelled out before the interval by goals from Lukas Jutkiewicz and Mark Reynolds.

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Republic of Ireland midfielder Aiden McGeady levelled in the 51st minute and Barry Robson had a penalty saved by Ruddy before Fortune fired in a the winner.

Rangersremain two points behind with a game in hand after Kris Boyd scored his second double in as many Premier League games to help them to a 3-0 victory against St Johnstoneat Ibrox.

The striker twice benefited from slack passing by a makeshift Saints defence in the first half, scoring the opener after only 30 seconds. Nacho Novo netted the third on the rebound just after the break

Third-placed Hiberniandrew 1-1 at Kilmarnock. Mark Burchill put the hosts ahead after 54 minutes before Republic of Ireland striker Anthony Stokes returned fire six minutes later.

James Wesolowski earned Hamiltona winner 10 minutes from time against Aberdeen, who went down 2-1 at home.

Gary McDonald had levelled Mickael Antoine-Curier’s opener before the Australian grabbed the winning goal in the 80th minute.

St Mirrenand Falkirkdrew 1-1 after Carl Finnigan's 88th minute strike cancelled out Michael Higdon's opener and Hearts drew 0-0 with Dundee United.