{"id":527713,"date":"2026-07-06T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527713\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:45:14","slug":"holders-st-mirren-dundee-dundee-united-falkirk-set-for-league-cup-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527713\/","title":{"rendered":"Holders St Mirren, Dundee, Dundee United &#038; Falkirk set for League Cup openers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee did not get out of the group stage last season and Airdrieonians&#8217; 1-0 win at Dens Park was one of the reasons why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steven Pressley&#8217;s side went on to have a pretty solid Premiership campaign and were never really in any relegation trouble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Saturday, almost exactly a year to the day of their last visit, Championship Airdrie will return to Dens Park seeking another upset (15:00).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Annan Athletic host Ross County &#8211; quite a road trip for the visitors &#8211; in the other Group D match, while Clyde sit this weekend out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the evening kick-off, Dundee United are away to Stirling Albion (17:30) in Group B. Earlier in the day, Arbroath visit Spartans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last season, United, as a Scottish representative in Europe, were given a bye in the first round and were knocked out in the second by Kilmarnock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jim Goodwin&#8217;s side finished seventh in the Premiership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundee did not get out of the group stage last season and Airdrieonians&#8217; 1-0 win at Dens Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-527713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}