Celtic dig in to stay top in Scotland

Ange Postecoglou is relishing his Celtic side's resilience after they stretched their unbeaten run in the Scottish Premiership to 20 games with a 3-2 away win over Aberdeen.

Celtic were two goals to the good after 20 minutes with counters from the Portuguese winger Jota and midfielder Matt O'Riley.

They remained well in control until goals after the break from Dons striker Christian Ramirez and midfielder Lewis Ferguson drew the home side level.

But Jota quickly scored a second to put the league-leading Hoops back in front and they remain one point ahead of Rangers who scored a 2-0 home win over Hibernian to maintain pressure on their great rivals.

Postecoglou, whose side already have the Premier Sports Cup in the trophy room, said: "It has been a big part of our way of doing things, we obviously want to be a team who dominates the game and scores goals.

"But at times over the last three or four months we have had to dig in.

"We had to do that again today, we've had two tough away games since the derby and we've taken six points from them.

"From our perspective that's a positive but the second half showed we still have things to improve on.

"Everyone was good in the first half but in the second we had to take control of it better.

"It's not an easy place to come and win - it was important to come here and continue our form."

James Tavernier's fifth-minute penalty set Rangers on their way to victory at Ibrox, before Alfredo Morelos put the game beyond the visitors with a smart finish in the 57th minute.

St Mirren extended their unbeaten start to the new year after coming from behind to claim a 2-1 win against St Johnstone.

Callum Hendry had given the visitors the lead through a retaken penalty which was then cancelled out