Scottish Premiership: St Johnstone relegated, Rodgers hits out at Aberdeen’s Gueye | Scottish Premiership

St Johnstone have been relegated from the Scottish Premiership after Ross County scored a penalty within the sixth minute of stoppage time to rescue a 1-1 draw away to Dundee.

County’s Ronan Hale smashed house from 12 yards following a handball resolution in opposition to Dundee’s Antonio Portales to sentence Simo Valakari’s facet to the drop after they misplaced 2-1 away at Hearts.

A primary-half personal objective by Barry Douglas and an Alan Forrest strike at Tynecastle left St Johnstone needing the consequence at Dens Park to go their method understanding that ought to they lose, solely defeat for County would go away them nonetheless preventing on the ultimate day.

Graham Carey gave them hope of placing their destiny again into their very own fingers however by then winger Scott Tiffoney’s objective for Dundee had appeared like offering them with an important lifeline.

That was till Ryan Astley headed the ball in opposition to the arm of his teammate Portales on the dying and Hale stepped as much as finish St Johnstone’s 16-year keep within the prime flight.

Brendan Rodgers criticised Aberdeen midfielder Pape Gueye for a “pointless problem” on Reo Hatate in Celtic’s 5-1 victory.

Johnny Kenny marked his full Celtic debut along with his first objective for the membership, heading house the fourth early within the second half at Pittodrie. Maik Nawrocki additionally headed his first objective with Yang Hyun-jun, Luke McCowan and Adam Idah additionally on track.

Kevin Nisbet had equalised for the Dons however their hopes of ending third within the have been effectively and actually extinguished. Aberdeen performed the closing levels of the match with 10 males after on-loan Tottenham defender Alfie Dorrington noticed pink for 2 bookings. However it was Gueye’s problem on Hatate, who went off injured and had an ice pack slightly below his knee, that irked Rodgers.

He stated: “It was a pointless problem. The free-kick was given and the ball runs away – Reo’s simply relaxed and stopping it and the man loses his head and simply kicks by way of and block-tackles him, so hopefully it’s not going to be too critical.”

Requested if the consequence will have an effect when the edges meet once more within the Scottish Cup remaining per week on Saturday, Rodgers added: “That’s for Aberdeen. From my facet, I’m actually pleased with the efficiency. For me this was nonetheless a giant sport for us and we did that.”

Cyriel Dessers hit two objectives as Rangers got here from behind to beat Dundee United 3-1 at Ibrox, with Nicolas Raskin additionally scoring for Barry Ferguson’s crew after Sam Cleall-Harding had earlier given United a first-half lead.

Hibernian are assured a third-place end after they drew 2-2 away to St Mirren. The house facet hit again to earn some extent after being two objectives down inside 10 minutes, whereas Motherwell scored thrice within the remaining 13 minutes to beat 10-man Kilmarnock 3-0 at Fir Park.