Celtic began their title defence final week towards St Mirren – the group 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 form of revenge over the group 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 assist 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 file towards Celtic is pretty horrendous they usually had not crushed the Glasgow aspect of their 30 earlier conferences.
Rodgers’ group have been ruthless at Pittodrie on their final go to in Could – their second 5-1 scoreline towards 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, shall be favourites to win their opening away league recreation for a fourth successive season.
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