Brutalist Paisley

The Civic Centre, Paisley. Source.

Morton visit Paisley for a televised Renfrewshire Derby League Cup group stage match.

This is the first meeting between these two clubs since April 21st, 2018, when St Mirren won 2 - 1. This is their first League Cup meeting since August 23rd, 2011, when St Mirren won 3 - 4.

Morton's Kalvin Orsi played for St Mirren in 2016-17. Reece Lyon was in their youth system. St Mirren's Jack Baird played for Morton last year. St Mirren have a goalkeeper, Jamie Langfeld, aged 40, who played his first league match in 1998. There can't be many 20th-century players still playing.

St Mirren had two games postponed in late October due to Covid quarantine, and are currently 11th in the Premiership.

Yesterday it was Queen's Park 1 - 3 Queen of the South.

Prior to these games, how many points could each Group G side accumulate, maximum?

11    St Mirren

10    Morton

  8    Partick

  7    QoS

  6    Queen's Park

[St Mirren 1 - 1 Morton. St Mirren win on PK. Morton goal by MacIver. And MacIver, Omar, McGuffie, Oliver and McGinty score in the shootout.

Group G standings after this weekend's matches:

                         P   W  PW PL   L   F    A  GD  Pts

St Mirren           3    1    2    0    0    7    4    3    7

QoS                  4    1    1    2    0    7    5    2    7

Morton              3    1    0    2    0    4    3    1    5

Partick              3    1    1    0    1    3    4   -1    5

Queen's Park    3    0    0    0    3    1    6   -5    0    ]

Elsewhere:

Club The Strongest beat Palmaflor 3 - 2 in a preparation match Monday.