The Scottish Premiership season continued with the latest round of games played over the weekend.
Celtic extended their lead at the top with Aberdeen up to 2nd above Rangers. Inverness drew but it wasn’t enough to take them off the foot of the Premier League.
Here’s a round up of the Scottish Premiership action from the other games played.
Results
Saturday 4th February 2017 – SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP
Motherwell 0-3 Heart of Midlothian 12:15
Aberdeen 2-0 Partick Thistle 15:00
Hamilton Academical 1-1 Kilmarnock 15:00
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2-2 Dundee 15:00
Rangers 1-1 Ross County 15:00
Sunday 5th February 2017 – SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP
St Johnstone 2-5 Celtic 12:30
The three points against Rangers in midweek was followed up by another win for Hearts on Saturday. A 3-0 victory at Motherwell kept the Jambos’ hopes of making the top 3 on track with Well just three points off a second bottom.
Aberdeen’s fifth win in six games was secured when they won 2-0 against Partick Thistle at Pittodrie. This took the Dons up to 2nd above Rangers after they could only draw.
Having won for the first time in 10 in the last Premiership game Hamilton’s 1-1 with Kilmarnock kept them three points clear of bottom of the league Inverness.
A second draw from the last three for Inverness – Caley haven’t won in 10 – kept alive hopes of avoiding relegation following this 2-2 draw with Dundee who remain five points above the bottom side.
The dropped points from Rangers saw them drop below Aberdeen into 3rd. A home win would have been expected but had it not been for a late equaliser in this 1-1 draw against Ross County at Ibrox the visitors would have won.
Having recovered from being two one down at St Johnstone the latest Celtic win was recorded when the champions eventually ran out 5-2 victors at McDiarmid Park putting them a whopping 27 points clear.
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