Five ties on Saturday and three on Sunday will decide who reaches the Premier Sports Cup quarter-finals. Here's what to look out for this weekend.
It's that stage of the season again when Scotland's European representatives join the clubs who navigated their way through the group stage in the last 16 of the Scottish League Cup.
Latest signing Topi Keskinen, the winger who arrived from HJK Helsinki, will hope to compensate for the exiting firepower on his possible debut. While Rhys McCabe's visitors have scored 15 goals in four wins of their own this season and only lost 2-1 away to top-flight Aberdeen in the group stage, they were brought down to earth by Friday's 5-0 Championship hammering away to Ayr United.
John McGlynn has already steered his side to a win over Premiership visitors Dundee United in their League Cup group-stage opener and will have high hopes of preventing Hearts record a fourth consecutive win at Falkirk Stadium.Spartans were the shock troops of the group stage, topping their section at the expense of Livingston after winning 1-0 away to the side just relegated from the top flight.
It means Philippe Clement's side return to the national stadium having won just one of their four outings this season - Saturday's narrow defeat of struggling visitors Motherwell. Indeed, St Johnstone have not scored in the latest five meetings between the sides since winning at McDiarmid Park in November 2022.
In contrast, Dundee United had a shaky start, losing their group-stage opener to League One champions Falkirk, but have since gone five unbeaten, albeit they have had to settle for a point in both games on their Premiership return.
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