Celtic vs Aberdeen LIVE score and goal updates from the Premiership showdown at Celtic Park

Aberdeen will be hoping to pile more misery on under-fire Celtic boss Wilfried Nancy when they they take on the champions this afternoon.

Four straight defeats - the worst of any new Hoops manager - in all competitions have seen large sections of the Celtic fanbase call for the Frenchman to be relieved of his duties before his reign has even got started. The Parkhead giants currently trail league leaders Hearts by nine points and could have fallen even further behind their title rivals by the time they face Jimmy Thelin's Dons, with the Jambos in action against Rangers in the early kick-off.

Aberdeen's Conference League campaign ended with a whimper on Thursday night when they were thumped 3-0 by Sparta Prague, finishing second-bottom of the revamped group stage with just two points from six matches.

But the Reds have picked things up in the Premiership after a dismal start, and go into today's clash unbeaten in their last eight league matches. The Pittodrie club haven't won at Celtic Park since the final day of the 2017/18 season but know that three points will see them leapfrog Hibs into fourth place for the first time this year.

The stakes are high in Glasgow's East End and you can keep across all the build, up, action and match-reaction right here with us in our LIVE blog.

As part of a senior group inside the Celtic dressing room Anthony Ralston has been almost programmed for success.

But for all the trophies he’s hoovered up alongside skipper Callum McGregor and the club’s most decorated player of all time, James Forrest, the right back insists they’re not robots.

They are hurting right now. And badly. Reeling from the pain of a remarkable turn of events that has seen the Hoops malfunction spectacularly to the