Celtic began their title defence final week in opposition to St Mirren – the crew who held them to a draw within the last recreation of the final Premiership marketing campaign.
Having this time overcome the cussed Buddies because of a late objective, Brendan Rodgers’ aspect will subsequent hope to additionally acquire some type of revenge over the crew who denied them a home treble within the season’s finale at Hampden.
Like Celtic, the Scottish Cup winners are taking part in solely their second match of the season. The primary led to a 2-0 defeat by Coronary heart of Midlothian.
Aberdeen had headed to Edinburgh with their followers believing that they had strengthened because of Jimmy Thelin’s summer season rebuild. Celtic, then again, arrive at Pittodrie with some amongst their help suggesting their squad is, if something, weaker than the one which misplaced in that Scottish Cup last.
Nevertheless, the Hampden penalty shoot-out win aside, Aberdeen’s report in opposition to Celtic is pretty horrendous and so they had not overwhelmed the Glasgow aspect of their 30 earlier conferences.
Rodgers’ crew have been ruthless at Pittodrie on their final go to in Could – their second 5-1 scoreline in opposition to the Dons in a row and their second win there in succession.
Certainly, Celtic haven’t misplaced in 17 visits to Aberdeen since a 2-1 defeat in February 2016 and, regardless of the cup last setback and questions on summer season recruitment, will probably be favourites to win their opening away league recreation for a fourth successive season.
