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CELTIC begin their title defence with a potentially tricky home game against last season’s overachievers Kilmarnock.

The Hoops are warm favourites to repeat last season’s Premiership romp despite a summer where their fans have bitterly complained about their lack of signings.

With only veteran keeper Kasper Schmeichel and last season’s loan star Bernardo in the building at the time of writing – albeit two impressive captures – despite a bulging bank balance, then it’s led to plenty of complaints about Celtic’s lack of ambition.

But let’s be honest, their squad looks comfortably miles better than anyone else in Scottish football and looks to have more strength than their Old Firm rivals Rangers, who have plenty of issues of their own.

And when this Celtic team can beat both Manchester City and Chelsea easily in their pre-season tour of the USA, they should be brimming with confidence.

Killie finished an impressive fourth last season and while the vast majority of their good work was done on their infamous artificial surface, they deserved plenty of credit.

They were in midweek action in the Europa League where they lost to Cercle Bruges in the Europa League.

Derek McInnes has brought in keeper Robby McCrorie and striker Bruce Anderson and turned some loan moves into permanent ones.

How the bookies view it: Killie huge outsiders

As always with a Celtic home game against non-Old Fim opposition, Celtic are huge favourites at 1/6 with the likes of Betfred and bet365.

Killie can be backed at a huge 17/1 with Paddy Power to spoil the party and the draw is 7/1 with William Hill.

Recent head to heads: Celtic’s problem opposition.

Apart from a 5-0 thrashing at the end of the season where Celtic clinched the title, Kilmarnock have proved troublesome opponents for the Hoops.