Hoops earn first away win given that February as Portuguese strikes late at Pittodrie

Aberdeen 1 Celtic 2 A late victor

from Jota made Celtic their first away victory in Scotland considering that Valentine's Day and left Aberdeen without a win in 9 suits.

Kyogo Furuhashi headed Celtic right into a lead on the roadway for the very first time in Scotland because that triumph over St Johnstone in February yet Aberdeen fought back strongly after the break.

Lewis Ferguson headed an equaliser as well as previous Celtic pair Scott Brown and also Jonny Hayes both required conserves prior to Jota netted complying with an excellent move in the 84th min with the site visitors' just real possibility of the fifty percent.

The 2-1 accomplishment ended a run of 9 residential away video games without triumph for the Hoops and provided their cinch Premiership project a much-needed pick-me-up.

Aberdeen manager Stephen Glass went down goalkeeper Joe Lewis in a proposal to reverse their form but they enter into the international break in ninth location.

Celtic went into the video game level on points with St Mirren as well as without any possibility of moving over 6th location.

There was one modification from Ange Postecoglou as Nir Bitton entered the base of midfield and also Callum McGregor lined up on the entrusted Tom Rogic benched.

Postecoglou stuck strongly to his instructions for his group to play the sphere out from the back and Aberdeen obtained a little very early encouragement from pressing high up, although subsequent efforts from Ferguson and Austin Samuels were harmless.

Bitton headed David Turnbull's corner large from 6 backyards before the last established the opener.

Turnbull got the sphere back from his quickly-taken toss on the extreme right, as well as whipped in a distribution in the direction of the back blog post. Furuhashi had crafted space from David Bates and also responded home from close range.

It was the eighth video game running that Aberdeen had acknowledged the opening objective.

Celtic took self-confidence as well as they had the sphere in the net complying with a streaming move involving eight gamers, however Jota was penalised for a press on Calvin Ramsay as he headed home.

The Dons were sluggish to react apart from confident fine charms when Christian Ramirez claimed he had been drawn by Cameron Carter-Vickers after Hayes crinkled in a cross.

Jota hit bench from 25 backyards prior to the Dons had a number of opportunities many thanks to Ramirez two times removing to the back post to fulfill corners from Ramsay.

Joe Hart touched the American's volley on to bench from the very first corner and also a spell of pressure adhered to the 2nd one only for Ferguson to fire wide.

Celtic nearly doubled their lead in the final secondly of the fifty percent when Carl Starfelt gazed Turnbull's corner simply past the far post.

Glass changed Samuels to the right wing at the beginning of the 2nd fifty percent and the Wolves financing gamer shot simply over before winning the edge that caused the 56th-minute equaliser.

Ferguson defeated Bitton to Ramsay's shipment as well as his header looped over Adam Montgomery on the close to blog post.

The Dons got on top and also Hart beat away Brown's header complying with one more Ramsay corner prior to managing a drive from Hayes at the 2nd attempt.

Celtic were battling for inspiration till Montgomery worked on to substitute Rogic's reverse pass and also made even for Jota to knock residence.