Celtic put their mauling in Madrid behind them with a symmetrical 6-0 win over abject Aberdeen in their Scottish Premiership match at Celtic Park. The home side had been defeated 6-0 by Atlético Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, while Aberdeen exited the Europa Conference League on Thursday despite an impressive 2-2 draw with Paok in Greece. The South Korea forward Yang Hyun-jun scored his first Celtic goal in the ninth minute, heading in from close range after Kelle Roos missed Luis Palma’s cross. The Japan striker Kyogo Furuhashi added a second seven minutes later from Matt O’Riley’s cutback. Palma scored from the spot in the 77th minute after the referee, Willie Collum, was asked by VAR to look at the pitchside monitor after Jack MacKenzie had wiped out Oh Hyeon-gyu. David Turnbull and Oh, twice, notched in 10 minutes of added time to complete a comprehensive win for Brendan Rodgers’ side. Rodgers praised his team for quickly erasing their Champions League pain. He said: “I thought the players responded so well. They’ve done great in the game, created numerous opportunities. Look at Aberdeen’s record, especially away from home. Look at how tough they are to beat. They go to Frankfurt and do well, they go to Rangers and win. “So they are a team who are tough to play against. But I thought our players today were absolutely fantastic. They showed some great football, great movement, great connection in the team. I was so pleased for them.” Rangers had won 2-0 at Livingston earlier in the day but Celtic’s one-sided victory restored their eight-point lead going into the international break, albeit Philippe Clement’s side have a game in hand. James Tavernier missed a penalty and scored another as Rangers maintained their encouraging start under Clement. Cyriel Dessers set the away side on their way to victory in the first half with his sixth goal of the season before the captain, Tavernier, sealed the points with a second-half spot-kick after he had sent his earlier attempt from 12 yards wide of the post. Clement has now overseen seven games unbeaten – six of which have brought victories – since replacing Michael Beale last month. The visitors thought they had gone ahead in the 16th minute when Connor Goldson had the ball in the net from close range. However, the goal was ruled out following a VAR check after Dessers was deemed to have been offside. Rangers created a good opening with a rapid counterattack three minutes later but Ross McCausland shot over. The 20-year-old winger’s pace caused more problems for the home side midway through the first half when he won a penalty after being brought down by the Livingston goalkeeper, Shamal George. Tavernier, however, sent his spot-kick wide of the left-hand post. Rangers had been well on top and they made a deserved breakthrough in the 26th minute when a lovely pass from Tom Lawrence released Dessers, who got away from Sean Kelly to slot the ball behind the advancing George. Rangers continued to dominate after the break but – after struggling to create many clear chances – they had to wait until the 74th minute to put the game beyond their hosts. After a VAR check, it was deemed that the ball struck the arm of Michael Devlin as the Livingston captain challenged the Rangers forwards Danilo and Abdallah Sima in the air while trying to defend a cross from the left from Borna Barisic. This time Tavernier made no mistake in tucking the ball to the right of George. Livingston are at the foot of the table on goal difference from Ross County. Clement called on the Scottish football authorities to consider implementing Sunday evening kick-off times for teams playing in Europe on a Thursday. “I think it’s better for Scottish football to do it that way,” said Clement. “They do it in Belgium and in other leagues. People who have never played may think: ‘What is the difference between six hours or eight hours more?’ But it’s a big difference in the recovery of a body, these hours of sleep and recovery because it’s a really short time for players to recover.”