Celtic continued their excellent begin to the Scottish Premiership season with a 2-0 victory at Aberdeen.
The Hoops battled to their opening-day win towards St Mirren, leaving it late earlier than Luke McCowan’s 87th-minute strike sealed all three factors, and whereas the guests needed to come by means of a testing opening 20 minutes at Pittodrie, they secured an in the end snug success to make it two wins from two initially of the season.
Aberdeen had been seeking to construct on their Scottish Cup last victory over Celtic on the finish of final season and so they began in decided vogue. Jimmy Thelin’s facet had been robust within the deal with within the early levels making life extraordinarily tough for Celtic, who had been having no time on the ball.
Kasper Schmeichel needed to be alert within the eighth minute as Adil Aouchiche’s long-range effort thundering into the nook of the online, the Celtic goalkeeper shifting rapidly throughout his line earlier than diving at full stretch to tip the ball across the publish.
That proved to be Aberdeen’s solely shot of the primary half as Celtic started to realize extra management, however the guests’ last ball was missing as they struggled to interrupt down the hosts.
That was till Kieran Tierney’s beautiful run and cross teed up Benjamin Nygren, who turned the ball house to provide Celtic the lead along with his first objective for the membership.
Celtic’s dominance continued after the break and Aberdeen wanted an excellent save from Dimitar Mitov to disclaim Daizen Maida.
On the different finish, Aberdeen had been a risk on the break however Schmeichel remained a bystander with Celtic trying the extra seemingly for a second objective.
It will definitely got here within the 66th minute and it was nicely definitely worth the wait from a Celtic standpoint as Reo Hatate’s highly effective strike beat Mitov and located the again of the online by way of the underside of the crossbar to wrap up a routine win for the champions.
Brendan Rodgers needs new gamers in however that’s two wins and two clear sheets. Celtic are easing their means into the season.
The objectives…
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Reo Hatate stunner doubles Celtic’s lead towards Aberdeen
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Benjamin Nygren opens the scoring for Celtic towards Aberdeen on debut
‘Severe issues forward for Aberdeen’
Sky Sports activities’ Kris Boyd:
“It’s very concerning for Aberdeen. It’s just five wins in 29 games since last November when people were talking them up as serious contenders.
“There is a softness about Aberdeen. They give the impression of being torpid and are missing struggle. They had been passive.
“Celtic, or any team that came up to Pittodrie in the past, would know they would have to fight to get the three points. They would know they would be in for a battle, but Celtic were in cruise control.
“They by no means received out of second gear and Aberdeen by no means laid a glove on them.
“Thelin has a lot of concerns. It’s not been good enough for a few months now. They had a really good day in May when they won the Scottish Cup but they never really looked like scoring against Celtic. That cup success was great and it was a long time coming, but it might just be papering over the cracks.
“They’ve critical issues forward. I do not see any progress.”
