Celtic maintained their 100% start to their Scottish Premiership title defence with a comfortable victory at Aberdeen.
Benjamin Nygren turned in a Kieran Tierney cross to steady the visitors who were under earlier pressure from the side which defeated them in last season’s Scottish Cup final.
But that challenge dissipated, with Reo Hatate curling in a magnificent strike midway through the second half to seal victory for Brendan Rodgers’ team.
Dons manager Jimmy Thelin, whose side lost at Tynecastle in the opening week, resisted the temptation to stick with the back five that worked so well in last season’s final win over Celtic, reverting to his trademark 4-2-3-1 formation.
And they started well, Adil Aouchiche stinging Kasper Schmeichel’s fingers tips with a fizzing long range shot.
But the visitors broke the deadlock as the half hour approached courtesy of a fine low finish from Swedish winger Nygren after great work down the left by Tierney.
Celtic could have been further ahead at the break with Hatate forcing a smart save from Dimitar Mitov, before Liam Scales headed just wide.
Mitov was called into action early in the second half, producing a wonderful reflex stop to tip Daezen Maeda’s volleyed effort over.
Celtic did double their advantage on 65 minutes, when Hatate smashed an 18-yard strike into the net off the underside of the bar.
Aberdeen huffed and puffed after that, but were unable to find any sort of route back in to the game.