GLASGOW (Reuters):
CELTIC beat Aberdeen 3-0 to move 16 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premier League yesterday.
They have 70 points from 28 games, while second-placed Hearts, who face bottom club Livingston today, are on 54. Champions Rangers, who won 2-1 at Falkirk, are third on 49 points.
Celtic dominated the first half but found Aberdeen keeper Jamie Langfield in fine form as he pulled off a series of super saves.
He denied Polish striker Maciej Zurawski from 10 metres on the left of the box in the early stages of the match, smothered an angled effort from Roy Keane and saved a low Stilian Petrov shot with his legs in the 19th minute.
But after the break, Bulgarian Petrov blasted a cutback from Zurawski into the top right corner in the 65th minute.
Ten minutes later, Shaun Maloney tucked the ball into the net from five metres following a fabulous run on the right and drag back from midfielder Keane.
Petrov set up Zurawski for a simple third in the last minute after running in on goal, rounding the keeper and waiting for the Pole to stroke the ball into an empty net.
Kilmarnock won 1-0 at home to Dunfermline 1-0 Inverness Caledonian Thistle lost 1-0 to Motherwell thanks to a Richie Foran penalty.
