Goals and highlights: Aberdeen 2-3 Celtic in Scottish Premiership 2022

Aberdeen and Celtic continue to get into the opposition's box continuously. It has become a back and forth game.

Declan Gallagher, Aberdeen defender, joins the cautioned.

After a headed pass from Ralston, Jota gets into the box and converts his brace to give the visitors the lead back.

After a free kick service from Funso Ojo, Lewis Ferguson heads in to level the match.

Jota, Celtic's attacker, also gets a yellow card.

On a pass from Funso Ojo, Christian Ramirez scores for the home side to cut the lead on the scoreboard.

Aberdeen defender David Bates becomes the first caution of the match.

Aberdeen makes a double move: Matthew Kennedy and Funso Ojo come on for Dylan McGeouch and Calvin Ramsay.

The match Aberdeen 0-2 Celtic is resumed.

Quietly, as visitors, Celtic are beating Aberdeen by two goals.

Jota's new goal was disallowed for an alleged infringement. The locals are saved.

After the goals, Celtic continued to dominate the game without any major problems; however, in the last few minutes they have not looked so clear when attacking.

Matt O'Riley's first-time shot from just outside the box - after a deflection off David Bates - scored the visitors' second goal.

Matt O'Riley assists Jota at the back post, who takes advantage of the defensive facilities to push the ball in and put the visitors ahead on the scoreboard.

First warning: Daizen Maeda's header goes wide of the goal. Celtic miss an important opportunity.

At the moment, Celtic is the team that has taken control of the ball; but, so far, they have not generated any dangerous chances either.

The ball is rolling! Aberdeen and Celtic are already facing each other.

The visitors' captain Callum McGregor made it clear that they will be looking to hang on for the win this afternoon.

"Pittodrie is always a tough place to go to, so we have to manage everything that comes our way in terms of the team and the challenge we're going to face. So we just go there, try to play our soccer, try to impose our style on the game and obviously we also have to take care of their threats, and at the end of the night we want the three points and to come back the happy way."

Liam Scales, Nir Biton, Glorgos Giakoumakis, James McCarthy, Tom Rogic, Michael Johnston, Scott Bain, James Forrest and Stephen Welsh.

Jack McKenzie, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Funso Ojo, Teddy Jenks, Michael Ruth, Connor Barron, Tom Ritchie, Matthew Kennedy and Jack Milne.

J. Hart; G. Taylor, S. Starfelt, C. Carter-Vickers, A. Ralston, R. Hatate, C. McGregor, M. O'Riley, J. Filipe, D. Maeda and L. Abada.

G. Woods; R. McCrorie, D. Gallagher, D. Bates, C. Ramsay, L. Ferguson, S. Brown, D. McGeouch, J. Hayes, V. Besuijen and C. Ramírez.

Aberdeen would reach 32 points, and could be in fifth place in the table; meanwhile, Celtic would reach 63 points and would assure to stay one more date at the top of the tournament.

In the current competition, these clubs met in Matchday 8 and Matchday 15; in both matches, the score was 2-1 in favor of Celtic.

So this afternoon, the visitors will be looking for their third consecutive win in less than a year against Aberdeen.

In just under an hour, Aberdeen and Celtic will meet again in the 2021-2022 Scottish Premiership season. At the moment, both teams are already at the stadium and in a few minutes they will go out for their respective warm-ups.

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J. Hart; G. Taylor, C. Starfelt, C. Carter Vickers, A. Ralston, R. Hatate, C. McGregor, T. Rogic, L. Abada, D. Maeda, and G. Giakoumakis.

G. Woods; A. Montgomery, D. Bates, R. McCrorie, C. Ramsay, F. Ojo, L. Ferguson, J. Hayes, T. Jenks, V. Besuijen and C. Ramírez.

Meanwhile, also this weekend, they thrashed Motherwell 4-0 away at Fir Park, with goals from Liel Abada, Tom Rogic (C) and Daizen Maeda.

Last Saturday, on their visit to the Almondvale Stadium, they were beaten 2-1 by Livingston, with Christian Ramirez scoring the only goal of the game.

The team coached by Ange Postecoglou is in first place with 60 points, after nineteen wins, three draws and three defeats; they have scored 54 goals and conceded 13.

The team led by Stephen Glass is in seventh place with 29 points, the result of eight wins, five draws and eleven losses; it has scored 28 goals and conceded 29.

This Wednesday afternoon, in the Granite City, Aberdeen and Celtic will face each other for the third time in the current competition, and this time with a big difference between the two teams, considering the current situation of each one, because while the locals are below mid-table, the visitors are at the top of the general classification. Aberdeen's goal is to qualify for European competitions, and they are not far from it, as they are only 4 points away from fourth place, which is the second qualifying round of the Conference League. Meanwhile, Celtic, in addition to being league champions, is looking to return to the Champions League.

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