Celtic have opened up a three-point lead at the top of the table after winning 4-1 at Hearts while Aberdeen slipped up for the first tine this season.

Kyogo Furuhashi gave the visitors the lead 10 minutes into the second half, Nicolas Gerrit-Kühn quickly added a second and Adam Idah a third. Musa Drammeh pulled one back before Idah completed the win with a penalty.

Richard Taylor headed a late winner as Aberdeen saw their unbeaten start come to a crashing halt in a 2-1 defeat at St Mirren.

After kick-off was delayed by an hour to allow a relentless effort by the Saints staff to clear the pitch of snow, the Dons were caught cold by a ferocious start from the hosts.

Toyosi Olusanya fired Stephen Robinson’s side in front in the 20th minute and their advantage could have been more at half-time. Jamie McGrath drew Aberdeen level five minutes after the restart but St Mirren claimed victory after Taylor netted with seven minutes left.

Philippe Clement admitted Rangers lack “credit in the bank” having lost too many points this season after another setback in the 1-1 draw against Dundee United at Ibrox.

Dundee United were held up by traffic, which eventually put the kick-off back 55 minutes. But the visitors shrugged off their problems to take the lead in the 36th minute through Sam Dalby’s header. Frustrated Gers fans booed their side off at the interval before they got back on level terms in the 66th minute through Vaclav Cerny, although the draw means they have dropped 13 points from 12 games.

Clement said: “Very frustrating to lose points and we have already lost too many this season. So we know we don’t have credit in the bank in that way.

“We lose too many points. We’re not where we want to be as a club. We knew that before this game. So in that way it’s two points again lost that we cannot lose.”

Jim Goodwin praised his players for leaving Ibrox with a point after the worst possible preparation. The Dundee United manager said: “The lads were sitting on a bus from 9.30 in the morning until 2pm when they got to Glasgow. The weather didn’t help and then obviously you’ve got a couple of major incidents on the roads as well, which delayed the whole thing. It was probably as bad as you could prepare for the game.”

Ross County had a blistering start to the second half to go two goals ahead courtesy of Ronan Hale and Josh Nisbet and with Motherwell only able to respond late on through Zach Robinson the points remained in Dingwall. It was a first win in almost a month for County.

Dundee piled more pressure on Hibernian’s manager, David Gray, with an emphatic 4-1 win at Dens Park. The Edinburgh side stormed into an early lead thanks to Nicky Cadden but then crumbled after having Jordan Obita sent off, with Dundee netting three before half-time through Jordan McGhee, a Nectarios Triantis own goal and Seb Palmer-Houlden. The Dundee substitute Curtis Main added a fourth deep into stoppage time.

St Johnstone halted a run of three straight defeats as Makenzie Kirk’s glancing header earned a 1-0 win over a Kilmarnock side for whom Liam Donnelly was shown a second yellow card late on.