Dundee come haring out of the traps, Luke McCowan zipping in a menacing drive that's beaten away by Dons keeper Gary Woods.

We're under way in Dundee.

So, that's our 3pm games done and dusted. One remaining game for us to enjoy on a busy day in the Premiership.

Our attention turns to Dens Park as Dundee host Aberdeen.

Ross County manager Malky Mackay tells BBC Sportsound: "I thought it was reasonably even in the first half despite the scoreline, we gifted them dreadful goals. First one, Jack Baldwin slips to allow Brophy in. Second one, Harry Clarke loses Marcus Fraser at the back post and the third one is obviously a mistake letting the ball go over you."

"I'm disappointed at that but we had a chat at half time and really told the players to have a go and I think we did that in the second half. We ended up hitting both posts and had 20 shots and 20 crosses, we put a lot of pressure on their goal. But we can't give away goals like that against a side like St Mirren."

Manager Robbie Neilson told HeartsTV: "I was delighted with them today. I wanted to come here and win but worse case scenario you come and take a point.

"We'll take the point and go up the road.

"You take a point against Rangers, you've got to win next week and you've got to win the week after that and the week after that."

Dundee manager James McPake welcomes back Charlie Adam and Leigh Griffiths for the visit of Aberdeen, and both are included in the starting line-up.

Adam hasn't made an appearance all season but takes his place in midfielder with Griffiths starting up front ahead of Jason Cummings.

Liam Fontaine and Paul McGowan drop out, with Luke McCowan also getting a start for the home side.

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Aberdeen welcome players back from injury but appear to have more on the sidelines as manager Stephen Glass makes three changes from the 2-1 loss to Celtic.

Ryan Hedges and Funso Ojo are both back in the side, but Ross McCrorie and Matty Longstaff are both out of the squad and captain club captain Joe Lewis - dropped in recent weeks - is not on the bench either, with 18-year-old Tom Ritchie instead the deputy goalkeeper.

Austin Samuels starts on the bench, with defender Declan Gallagher returned to the starting line-up.

Speaking to BBC Sportsound St Mirren manager Jim Goodwin:

"First half, everything was going according to plan we got ourselves three goals and in front. Scored a couple of really good goals from our perspective.

"At half-time we just asked for more of the same and I felt we got that for the first 15 minutes but we spoke about the importance of the next goal and unfortunately Ross County got it.

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"But I've got to give great credit to the players because when you're winning comfortably your standards can slip a bit and I thought we completed ever so well and stuck in there.

"We could easily have dropped a couple of points here but instead we've got our third win in a row which is a great achievement for the team."

Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou tells BBC Sportsound: “It was a good solid performance. It’s not easy to control a game away from home, especially here.

"Right from the start we controlled it really well. Joe [Hart] didn’t have a save to make in the end, defensively we were strong.

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“Both goals were great goals. The first one was a fantastic ball by Tom Rogic and Dave [Turnbull] has got that in his locker, he can put one in top corner.

“I hope we are more settled. We were able to put on three players today that can make an impact.”

Livingston boss David Martindale tells BBC Sportsound he was delighted with his side's victory at McDiarmid Park.

"We’ve been on the back end of poor results but performances have been fairly good so it was nice to come out on the other end of that today," he said.

“We’ve not really had any continuity with boys out through injury. Today allowed us to get players like Scott Pittman and Craig Sibbald back on the park who are big players for us.

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“Yesterday was the first time, since probably the star of the season, where we’ve had to leave boys out of the squad. I’m not saying it’s pleasing to leave anyone out but it’s a nice problem to have."

The clash between Dundee and Aberdeen was moved back three hours at the request of both clubs.

They hope kicking off later will boost the international coverage of the Dens Park game.

Both clubs have strong links to the United States - Dundee are owned by two Americans, while Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack is based in the US.

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Through Cormack, the Pittodrie club have established a relationship with Atlanta United, whose season ticket holders are automatically granted access to the club's in-house television channel, RedTV.

Cormack has spoken before about making Aberdeen "America's Scottish football team".

Six years ago, Dundee proposed the idea of moving a home league match against Celtic to the United States, the first time a Scottish league game would have been held overseas.

Although the move didn't get the go-ahead at the time, as recently as 2017 Dundee said they were still looking at the possibility of playing a game in the United States.

Dundee: Legzdins, Kerr, Marshall, Sweeney, McGhee, Bryne, Ashcroft, McCowan, McMullan, Adam, Griffiths

Substitutes: Sharp, Mullen, Elliot, Sheridan, Anderson, Cummings, Lamb

Aberdeen: Woods, Mackenzie, Gallagher, Bates, Ramsay, Brown, Ferguson, Ojo, Hayes, Hedges, Ramirez

Substitutes: Ritchie, Watkins, McGinn, Emmanuel-Thomas, McGeouch, Jenks, Samuels

Speaking to BBC Sportsound, St Johnstone manager Callum Davidson said he wasn't pleased with his side's defensive composure today.

"If you want to see how poor a team can be from the start, that was us today," he said. "We huffed and puffed and had chances to score but when you concede goals like the way we did you don’t win games of football, simple as that.

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"Defensive errors let us down today, you’d be correct in saying that. We set high standards for ourselves and we didn’t meet them today.

"We need to get back to our standards next week, we can’t afford to have games like we did today."

Motherwell manager Graham Alexander tells BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound: "We were undone by a little bit of quality with the goals. But generally, I thought our shape was good and our discipline was excellent.

"We just couldn't find that killer touch when we had a couple of balls flash across goal before they'd scored. But my boys kept going."

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Ex-St Johnstone defender on BBC Sportsound

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Craig Halkett's late equaliser at Ibrox ensured Hearts remain undefeated in the Premiership this season - and are one point off league leaders and today's opponents Rangers.

Dundee United are third and Celtic fourth, following victories over Hibernian and Motherwell, respectively.

St Mirren move onto 13 points after their win in Dingwall, while Livingston are on seven points following their convincing victory at St Johnstone.

All over at Fir Park as Celtic back it back-to-back away league wins.

Jota's near-post finish had the visitors ahead at the break before David Turnbull's sensational strike doubled the advantage against his ex-club.

That late goal at Ibrox means Celtic are up to fourth, four points off leaders Rangers.