Postpublished at 16:17 British Summer Time 10 August
Hibernian 2-2 Kilmarnock
Jamie Brandon has just tried to cut Kieron Bowie in half. That's a proper Jamie Brandon challenge that.
Yellow card.
Listen to reaction from Tannadice & Easter Road on Sportsound
FT: Dundee United 2-3 Hearts - Shankland converts from spot for first Premiership goal this season; Dolcek arcs in free-kick to level instantly before thumping beyond Clark; Findlay nods back across goal for Hearts' second before repeating the feat in injury time
FT: Hibernian 2-2 Kilmarnock - Bushiri bullets header in at back post; Youan slots below keeper for second; Polworth taps in cutback to bring visitors back into game with Brannan's looping volley sensationally dropping in
FT: Aberdeen 0-2 Celtic - Nygren turns in Tierney cross on 27 minutes, Hatate curls pin-point shot off bar for Celtic second midway through second half
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Hibernian 2-2 Kilmarnock
Jamie Brandon has just tried to cut Kieron Bowie in half. That's a proper Jamie Brandon challenge that.
Yellow card.
Stuart Findlay
Level. It's a wonderful header into the top corner from Findlay, his third goal of the season already. Credit, too, to Harry Milne for another wonderful outswinging corner.
Game on again!
Dundee United 2-1 Hearts
Cammy Bell
Former Scotland goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
Dundee have slowed the pace down. They're walking to take throw-ins, they're in complete control of the game just now.
Hibernian 2-1 Kilmarnock
Djenairo Daniels offers a hand of apology to David Watson, but it's not enough.
He should have rolled the midfielder in to go one-on-one, after robbing the ball from Jordan Obita to set up a two-on-one.
Instead, he tried an audacious shot from outside the box.
Woeful decision.
Hibernian 2-2 Kilmarnock
Some way to get your first Scottish Premiership goal.
Cannot emphasise strongly enough how much you need to catch this on Sportscene later.
Ben Brannan celebrates his magnificent strike
Dundee United 2-1 Hearts
Oisin McEntee is down with a sore one after being clattered by Panutche Camara, who was booked by David Dickinson for the challenge.
Hearts make a complete mess of the free kick and the chance is gone.
Ben Brannan
In the words of Archie Macpherson: WOOF.
That is absolutely extraordinary. A corner is headed away and Brannan watches it all the way onto his boot and volleys it into the top corner from 25 yards.
It's long, it's looping. Ben Brannan brilliance.
Hibernian 2-1 Kilmarnock
Almost an equaliser for Kilmarnock!
This time a cross comes from the right and 6ft 7in Marcus Dackers rises to nod over the bar. He's having some impact on this game.
Dundee United 2-1 Hearts
Michael Steindwender has come on for Hearts, as has Alexandros Kyziridis. Frankie Kent and Alan Forrest are the players to go off.
An injury for Kent, perhaps?
Right, back to it in Leith and Dundee.
HT: Dundee United 2-1 Hearts
HT: Dundee United 2-1 Hearts
Hearts have had the ball in the United half the majority of the time, but haven't made it count. The home side, on the other hand have managed to be clinical, with the help of some loose goalkeeping.
Dolcek's strikes were given an expected goals rating of 0.134 and 0.042. Very low. Which means Clark should have really saved them.
HT: Hibernian 2-1 Kilmarnock
Brian McLauchlin
BBC Scotland at Easter Road
The goal for Kilmarnock may just have came at the right time for the Ayrshire side as Hibs looked pretty comfortable in the opening 45 minutes.
Hoilett and Youann have been a real thorn for the Killie defence to deal with but the Sam can be said about Dackers and Daniels at the other end as they test Hanley and Bushiri.
Next goal here at Easter Road will be interesting!
HT: Hibernian 2-0 Kilmarnock
FT: Aberdeen 0-2 Celtic
Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin tells BBC Scotland: “I think some parts of the game were good in the first half. Still, on the break, in our transitions, we're not clinical enough. We have to do more work during training sessions to be better when we have the opportunity to win the ball and transition, and how we arrive to the last third.
“[Celtic] defended transitions really well, and I think in the last 20 minutes of the game, we don't have this extra power to create an opportunity to get back to the game. I think the game was still alive when it was 1-0. When the score was 2-0, we needed to risk a little bit more.
“We created some opportunities against Hearts. Today, not so many.
“I still think it's early, but of course we expected more from ourselves, and I am the manager, so I'm responsible.
“We have to do better and keep improving the team and the relationships. I think many times when we have control of the ball, we end up with our goalkeeper, and instead of breaking lines and arriving to their box, we end up losing the ball and then it's a second-ball situation. We have to be more true to what we want to do, but that's my job, to help the players here and find that direction.”
FT: Aberdeen 0-2 Celtic
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers tells BBC Scotland: “Very pleased. This was always going to be a challenging game in the context of how the last season finished and coming here so early in Aberdeen's first [home] game.
“But I thought we controlled it really well. We had a lot of really good moments in the game, scored two outstanding goals. Had a few other opportunities to score. Their keeper makes a great save.
“And then when we had to defend, which you do, you can never dominate 100% of the game. But in those moments we defended very, very well and were strong.
“I'm so pleased for the players. The last season would have hurt them. They had a fantastic season last season.
“But we come here today, we play with quality, we play with heart and we get the result.
“I'm really pleased for Benji [Nygren]. That's why we signed him. He's a player with a record of scoring goals from midfields or wide areas. But we see him very much as an eight. He can move well, he can take the ball in tight spaces and he can get in the box. It's really nice for him to get that goal.
“And the second goal, we played out the pressure really well. And then we've done what we've done up here a few times.”
On Kieran Tierney's second-half substitution: “He was actually sick at half-time, but he wanted to give it a go. But he's given us a really good hour in the game, created the first goal, and we know that it's just about building his football fitness up, and then you can really see the qualities he gives us.”
A pretty similar tale to the game last week for Hibs.
Two goals, looking pretty comfortable, before conceding a goal before the break that makes the game far tighter.
They were good value for the two-goal lead, with Rocky Bushiri and Elie Youan putting them ahead.
Marcus Dackers' amazing assist has given Killie a lifeline though.
What an utterly gripping first half.
Hearts started really brightly and Lawrence Shankland marked that by scoring a penalty following Iurie Iovu's foul on Stuart Findlay.
But United were behind for only three minutes - thanks to Ivan Dolcek's well-struck free kick. The Croatian added a second as he fired past Zander Clark at his near post.
The Hearts goalkeeper got a hand to both United goals and will be under the microscope regardless of what happens in the second half.
But this game is far from done.
Dundee United's Ivan Dolcek scores a free kick to make it 1-1
Dundee United 2-1 Hearts
Yevhenii Kucherenko gets down rapidly to his right to push away Claudio Braga's low shot. The Hearts forward did really well to get that out of his feet, but the United goalkeeper was equal to it.
Dundee United 2-1 Hearts
Cammy Bell
Former Scotland goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound
Zander Clark has got to do better.
Full credit to Ivan Dolcek. Fantastic run, great weight of pass from Camara and brilliant for United.
Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
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2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 1 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 1 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
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