The one all-Premiership tie – and possibly the least predictable – takes Dundee United to Motherwell on Friday night in a gathering of two golf equipment seeking to finish a decades-long League Cup drought.
United haven’t lifted the League Cup since beating metropolis rivals Dundee within the 1980 ultimate, whereas Motherwell’s wait is even longer, having final gained the trophy again in 1950, once they defeated Hibernian.
Certainly, neither facet have gone past the quarter-finals since they final progressed to the ultimate.
Motherwell defeated Aberdeen 3-0 seven years in the past, earlier than knocking out Rangers within the semi-finals and falling quick of their bid for an Outdated Agency double towards Celtic.
Two years earlier, United beat Hibernian on penalties after a 3-3 draw, overcame Aberdeen within the final 4 but additionally misplaced to Celtic within the ultimate.
Celtic have been additionally Nicely’s nemesis when the Lanarkshire facet and United final reached the quarter-finals two years in the past, the Glasgow guests easing to a 4-0 win whereas the Tangerines have been dropping 2-1 in Kilmarnock.
The present sides go into Friday’s quarter-final seeking to recuperate from top-flight defeats that ended three-game successful runs.
Stuart Kettlewell’s hosts fell 2-1 away to Aberdeen, whereas Jim Goodwin’s United had their spectacular eight-game unbeaten sequence dropped at an finish by Rangers’ single-goal win at Tannadice.
Current conferences are additionally no information to Friday’s final result contemplating United have spent a season successful the Championship since dropping 3-2 at Fir Park of their final assembly – with United having gained there a month beforehand.
Their knock-out conferences are typically tight affairs too, with United successful 2-1 at Fir Park within the Scottish Cup fourth spherical in November 2014, whereas Alan Gow’s objective was sufficient to take hosts Motherwell by way of to the League Cup semi-finals in October 2010.
One other shut recreation is in prospect below the Fir Park lights.
