League Cup holders St Mirren scored an injury-time winner to complete a remarkable comeback in a seven-goal thriller with League 1 visitors East Kilbride.<\/p>\n
Craig McLeish’s side trailed last season’s fourth-tier champions by three goals at the hour mark, before goals from Eseosa Sule, Ryan Carr, and Killian Phillips were followed by Malik Dijksteel’s stoppage-time strike.<\/p>\n
It leaves the Paisley side on nine points with a final-day meeting with Dunfermline Athletic deciding who will win the group.<\/p>\n
Fellow top-flight side Falkirk are all but out of the competition, though, after a meek 1-1 away draw with League 1 Alloa Athletic, followed by a 4-2 loss in the bonus point penalty shootout. <\/p>\n
John McGlynn’s side took the lead through Scott Tanser before 16-year-old Rangers loanee Kyle Glasgow levelled, leaving both sides on four points and highly unlikely to progress regardless of their final group game result.<\/p>\n
Dundee lost 7-6 in the bonus point shoot-out with League 1 side Ross County after a 1-1 draw in regular time. Finlay Robertson put Steven Pressley’s side ahead before Brian Graham levelled. <\/p>\n
Dundee can still progress with a win in their final game, but may need to rely on results elsewhere to secure a knockout berth.<\/p>\n
Dundee United’s hopes of progressing also remain alive after they thumped Spartans 4-0 in their final group-stage game, moving on to nine points and a plus-seven goal difference.<\/p>\n
Lachie Rose scored a double either side of the interval, with Dylan Tait and Zac Sapsford adding late goals.<\/p>\n
Kilmarnock continued their unbeaten start to the season with a narrow win over Hamilton Academical, thanks to Greg Kiltie’s goal.<\/p>\n
Should they avoid defeat in their final game against Peterhead, they are guaranteed progression to the last 16.<\/p>\n
And Inverness Caledonian Thistle saw off Premiership visitors St Johnstone with a narrow 1-0 win, thanks to Alfie Stewart’s early strike.<\/p>\n
Simo Valakari can still guide his side into the knockout stages with a win over East Fife, but they may also need other results to fall in their favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League Cup holders St Mirren scored an injury-time winner to complete a remarkable comeback in a seven-goal thriller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-704633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}