Ahead of Celtic’s trip to Pittodrie on Sunday, Virgil van Dijk has said that the Hoops’ 2-1 win over Aberdeen in November last year was a turning point in the race for the Premiership.
Celtic registered an emphatic 5-0 win over Dundee last Friday and a subsequent 1-0 loss for the Dons at the hands of Dundee United on Saturday made the Bhoys’ 11-point lead at the top of the table unassailable thus crowing them the Scottish champions for the fourth successive year.
And the Dutchman is elated with his team’s title win, saying that Celtic deserve to be the champions of Scotland.
“It’s a championship so it’s an amazing feeling to win it”, he told Celtic View.
“It means you’re the best in Scotland and that’s where we belong. We can now celebrate it there and we can show that we’re champions.”
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In November last year, Celtic defeated Aberdeen in a hard-fought match courtesy of a Van Dijk strike late in the second half stoppage time. The Hoops were down to ten men following Scott Brown’s sending off and that win at Pittodrie gave Celtic the lead in the Premiership for the first time this season.
And the 23-year-old feels it was a decisive game in the title race.
“That game in November was an important one, especially after Broony’s red card, and we were trying to hold on to get one point.
“It was an important goal at the end and it looks like it was a big goal and three points in the context of the season.
“It’ll be good to go back up there but it’s amazing to win the championship any time.
“It’s unfortunate that it has not come straight after a game but it is what it is.”
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