{"id":711497,"date":"2026-07-26T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711497\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:51:24","slug":"premier-sports-cup-st-johnstone-crash-out-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711497\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Sports Cup: St Johnstone crash out &#8211; round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Johnstone crashed out the Premier Sports Cup thanks to East Fife&#8217;s dramatic stoppage-time equaliser, but Premiership rivals Dundee United squeezed through after Montrose blew their chance at home to Spartans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Montrose only required a point to progress to the last 16 as Group B winners, but the League 1 side lost 2-0 to visitors from the division below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Johnstone needed a win to have at least a chance of progressing as one of the best runners-up but end up finishing third behind Inverness Caledonian Thistle and East Fife, who also fail to make the knock-out stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aberdeen, Ayr United, Kilmarnock, Ross County and Stenhousemuir join United and Caley Thistle as group winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dundee and Partick Thistle also go through as two of three best-placed runners-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final group winner and best runner-up will be decided on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Mirren will win Group C if they avoid defeat at home to Dunfermline Athletic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Dunfermline win, they are guaranteed to go through as group winners or runners-up as they would have a better goal difference than Queen&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Johnstone crashed out the Premier Sports Cup thanks to East Fife&#8217;s dramatic stoppage-time equaliser, but Premiership rivals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711497","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\/711497","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=711497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}