Premier Sports Cup holders Celtic will face Rangers in the semi-finals of this season’s competition as Motherwell take on St Mirren.<\/p>\n
Brendan Rodgers’ team cruised by Partick Thistle 4-0 at Firhill on Sunday as they aim to win the trophy for the 23rd time.<\/p>\n
St Mirren overcame Kilmarnock on Friday on penalties, and on Saturday Motherwell saw off Aberdeen 1-0 while Russell Martin’s Rangers enjoyed a rare but comfortable 2-0 victory over Hibernian.<\/p>\n
The games will be played at Hampden on the weekend of 1\/2 November.<\/p>\n
“Our objective is to get to the final,” Rodgers told BBC Scotland. <\/p>\n
“Both teams will be giving everything to get through but there’s a lot of football before that.”<\/p>\n
Of the teams left in the tournament – and of any previous winner – it is Motherwell who will be seeking to end the longest wait to lift the Scottish League Cup after their only triumph came back in 1950.<\/p>\n
Rangers, previous winners 28 times, last lifted the trophy in 2023, while St Mirren’s sole triumph came in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier Sports Cup holders Celtic will face Rangers in the semi-finals of this season’s competition as Motherwell take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-172454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}