Brendan Rodgers sent a message to his Celtic players to go out and seal the Double in style ahead of their trip to Tayside on Sunday.
But instead the champions produced a patchy display against Dundee with veteran James Forrest the only one to show any real quality, particularly with the first of his two goals that were the difference in the 2-1 victory.
A win is a win, though, and in the first of five games to go in the Scottish Premiership title race it was enough. The performance was all too familiar for many of the Hoops legions' liking from a season that hasn't lived up to the expectations in the second coming of Rodgers given the swashbuckling nature of his dominance in his first spell – and coming on the back of Ange Postecoglou's heavy metal football.
A couple of hours before Celtic's win at Dens Park, rivals Rangers kept themselves in the title race with an equally nervy win by the same scoreline over St Mirren in Paisley.Philippe Clement admitted afterwards: "Was it our most sexy game?
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