Celtic start Premiership defence with comfortable win over Kilmarnock | Scottish Premiership

Celtic started the defence of their Premiership title with a routine 4-0 win at house to Kilmarnock.

Reo Hatate fired them into the lead after 17 minutes with a cool end from the sting of the penalty space. Celtic doubled their lead 5 minutes earlier than half-time when Liam Scales headed a nook from Matt O’Riley contained in the far put up.

Nicolas-Gerrit Kühn added the third on the hour when his deflected strike looped over the Kilmarnock goalkeeper, Robby McCrorie. Anthony Ralston wrapped up the scoring in stoppage time together with his first Celtic aim since 2021.

Dundee fought again twice to forestall metropolis rivals Dundee United marking their return to the highest flight with a victory in an exciting 2-2 draw. The newly promoted hosts led on the break after targets from Kristijan Trapanovski and Miller Thomson, both aspect of an equaliser from the Dundee ahead Seb Palmer-Houlden. Tony Docherty’s aspect hit again for a second time to earn a degree because of a late penalty from their captain, Luke McCowan.

St Mirren adopted up their wonderful midweek European outing with a convincing 3-0 win over Hibernian. After qualifying for the subsequent qualifying spherical of the Uefa Convention League with a 4-1 house win over the Icelandic aspect Valur on Thursday, the house aspect went forward three minutes into the second half by way of Roland Idowu. The substitute Oisin Smyth headed in a second within the 77th minute and drove in a 3rd two minutes later to wrap up a deserved victory.