After a part of the loot in Easter Road in controversial circumstances, Celtic's return to the winning forms came without too much fuss or debate.
This turned out to be an example of a quick textbook can chew the good sides and spit them.
Not quite at its best for the first quarter of this game, the entire local team required to provoke them in life was a break from the ball.
The moment Daizen Maeda crashed the ball after 24 minutes to claim his 24th goal for the season, nothing that would have happened until that moment.
Impressively optimistic until that stage, Aberdeen entered his shells and began making the type of elementary errors that committed such an gloomy winter.
How Celtic punished them. Jota claimed the second, with Callum McGregor in the third to kill the contest before the interval. Having fought in the capital, they did this work early.
Daizen Maeda shoots her second from the night in additional time to complete the defeat
McGregor celebrates his goal with Engels and Jota, the latter also goes up to the score sheet
The substitute Yang Hyun-Jun left the bank to add some shine to the scoreboard, before Dons's replacement, Shayden Morris, claimed a 90-minute comfort. Maeda quickly restored the four goals cushion in the detention time, since he mentioned a quarter of a century of goals in this remarkable personal campaign.
While the Dons were the architects of their own fall, the Celtic were completely ruthless at the moments that defined the game. He render the second half more than a training exercise.
Now, 16 points of course, the only outstanding question in this race for the title is when Celtic will cross the line. Who would bet against Champagne's corks before division?
Jimmy Thelin will have seen a lot in his time in football, but probably nothing like this. His team could have easily been a goal or two ahead from the beginning if they had shown a little more belief in front of the goal.
When the Swedish returned to the tunnel in the interval, he must have felt that he would have been assaulted.
Interestingly, despite the integral final score that assured that Aberdeen's ambitions in a fourth successive victory ended convincingly, Thelin will feel in the heart of that impressive openness. It was what followed what will worry. The Dons simply crumbled after being behind.
Yang left the bank to turn a cross home and get the room of Celtic night
Last October, this was the accessory that caused febrile talks of a challenge of Aberdeen's title.
Thelin's team showed an extraordinary resilience to return from two goals in the afternoon, but soon plunged into a career without 12 games. Once Celtic got to his calm here, that kind of return of four months would never be repeated.
Celtic had spent three days stewing on the controversial intervention of Alan Muir, who saw Maeda deny an equalizer against Hibs because the VAR official decided that the ball had crossed the goodbye before Alistair Johnston wrapped his foot around.
Although Rodgers' side had not been at his best after Munich, they felt hard to leave Leith without a point for his efforts. A feeling of injustice rarely a team does some damage.
It was not only the recent resurgence of the Dons who saw them reach the East End of Glasgow with more than one splinter of hope. Surprisingly, they are not only the side of the Premier League to have taken something in Parkhead this season, but they are the only side that has scored there.
Initially at least, Aberdeen played as a team that had found his second wind. Oday Dabbah, the late hero against Kilmarnock, made his first beginning. In effortless form, Palestinian positions exchanged with Kevin Nisbet with Celtic problems and asked Auston Trusty and Cameron Carter-Vickers in the early stages.
Maeda put Celtic in operation after 24 minutes, rounding from a short distance
Aggressive and ambitious, the Dons denied the Celtic weather in the ball and the reach to enter its normal rhythm.
There was also a structure next to Thelin. Compact when they had to be, they allowed their opponents to play in areas of their own choice. His death was acute, his willingness to carry the ball in tight areas, which allowed them to build movements.
There was also a real hunger for them. Graeme Shinnie's fleshy Tackle about Arne Engels offered greater breath.
They could have easily been two goals ahead within the opening period. Dabbagh has seemed hesitant when Jeppe Okkels played it and could not lift the ball on Kasper Schmeichel. Moments later, Nisbet fued from a tight angle when he should have worked to the Danish goalkeeper.
Although Jota had a low blow and McGregor shot one through the bar, Aberdeen was marginally the best side. Just when they began to imagine their possibilities, Lady Luck rejected them.
Jota fed Engels on the left. The Belgian delivery was instinctively hooked in the air by Kristers Tobers. The ball could have gone anywhere. He sat perfectly for Maeda, who flew it in the extended arms of Ross Doohan and on the network.
Maeda celebrates his first goal of the night, which was his tenth league.
After a slow beginning, the Celtic were in command. In six minutes, everyone puts the game beyond visitors.
It was derived from an Aberdeen attack that broke. Celtic responded in numbers and threat. Jota accelerated, put the brakes and rolled in Engels. The Belgian square the ball back to the Portuguese who scored despite a bad connection.
A strange first half concluded with Aberdeen feeling that they had been beaten by a giant. Having seen Alexander Jensen not clarifying his lines on the edge of the box, Thelin's players could only observe with horror while McGregor showed the ball through the goal with his right foot to find the farthest corner. Finished game.
It was only a matter of how many Celtic they would write down. Rodgers could sound the changes early, with Adam Idah, Yang and Luke McCowan introduced before the time of the hour.
McCowan demanded an orderly assistance for Yang with 18 minutes, collecting a hole in the defense of the Dons. Yang went by placement and power and defeated Doohan in his close position.
Morris at least assured that Aberdeen's efforts were rewarded with a goal when he beat Schmeichel with a low strike, just for Maeda to immediately sweep the Johnston cross to claim Celtic's fifth.