Aberdeen 0-2 Celtic: Brendan Rodgers' side continue perfect start with victory

Celtic continued their perfect start to the Scottish Premiership season with a 2-0 victory at Aberdeen.

Celtic battled to their opening day win against ST Mirren last weekend, leaving it extremely late before Luke McCowan's 87th -minute strike sealed all three points, and while the visitors had to come through a testing opening 20 minutes at Pittodrie, Brendan Rodgers' side secured an ultimately comfortable win to make it two wins from two at the start of the season.

Aberdeen were looking to build on their Scottish Cup final win over Celtic at the end of last season and they started in determined fashion. Jimmy Thelin's side were strong in the tackle in the early stages making life extremely difficult for Celtic, who were having no time on the ball as they

Kasper Schmeichel had to be alert in the eighth minute as Adil Aouchiche's long-range effort looked to be thundering into the corner of the net. However, the Celtic goalkeeper moved quickly across his line before diving at full stretch to tip the ball around the post.

That proved to be Aberdeen's only shot of the first half as Celtic began to gain more control, but the visitors final ball was lacking as they struggled to break down the hosts.

That was until Kieran Tierney's exquisite run and cross teed up Benjamin Nygren, who turned the ball home to give Celtic the lead with his first goal for the club.

Celtic's dominance continued after the break and Aberdeen needed a superb save from Dimitar Mitov to deny Daizen Maida.

At the other end, Aberdeen were a threat on the break but Schmeichel remained a bystander with Celtic looking the more likely for a second goal.

It eventually came in the 66th minute and it was well worth the wait from a Celtic point of view as Reo Hatate's powerful strike beat Mitov and found the back of the net via the underside of the crossbar to wrap up a routine win for the champions.