Goals from Jonatan Johansson and Jorg Albertz earned leaders Rangers a comfortable 2-0 win over Hibernian on Saturday and kept them four points clear of Celtic, their closest pursuers. A nervous Celtic came from behind to win 2-1 away to Hearts, Lubomir Moravcik scoring the winner in the 88th minute.

Johansson's eighth goal of the season gave Rangers a 32nd minute lead and when Albertz added the second in the opening minute of the second half the contest was effectively over.

Celtic trailed to a Colin Cameron goal after just three minutes, but he turned from hero to villain when he was sent off in the 57th minute for violent conduct. Celtic made the most of their one-man advantage by equalising through former England striker Ian Wright in the 71st minute and sealing three points with Moravcik's late strike.

Aberdeen, beginning to look like something resembling a football team, earned a 1-1 draw with St Johnstone yesterday. Not quite able to pick up their second league win of the season, there was at least some confidence about them.

Aberdeen's inability to defend set-pieces cost a goal and, when David Lilley was carried off on a stretcher with a knee injury, they must have felt that the whole world was against them.

But this is a long season and St Johnstone are still within sight of them at the bottom. The couple of goals swapped in the second half produced a fair result but Saints are the team who need to improve more.

The match was going nowhere and Aberdeen were regretting a bad miss from the striker Robbie Winters when, unexpectedly, they scored after 72 minutes. The Argentinian Juan Cobian was involved but the final strike, a lovely lob from Andy Dow, made the goal his own.

Aberdeen, however, do not keep clean sheets. Saints came back into the game three minutes later with the sort of goal that tends to send managers either to the local pub or the Samaritans. Gary Bollan delivered a free-kick and Graeme Jones, the Saints' new striker, popped up in the middle of a ruck to score.

Aberdeen manager Ebbe Skovdahl felt his team deserved better. "I'm disappointed with the manner we lost the goal because the free-kick shouldn't have been conceded. But overall there were signs of improvement," he said.