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Trivia
- The first meaningful game of the season. Celtic were in Group 4 teamed up with Dundee Utd as the other seeded club and Motherwell and Ayr Utd as the unseeded teams.
- Jock Stein fielded an unchanged team from the one that had won the Drybrough Cup with Bone and Connelly on the bench.
- A good open game was hoped for with Motherwell being the surprise rejuvenated package the previous season.
- Prices for the season are: Stand 50p OAP/child 30p Ground 30p OAP/child 20p.
- The highly contentious offside law was still in place for the League Cup, with the offside rule only in place in a line beyond the 18 yard line extended to the two touch lines.
- In the match of the day Hibs beat Rangers 3-1 at Easter Road.
- On the same day Celtic defeated Motherwell 3-1 in a Reserve League Cup match at Fir Park. The Celtic team was Hunter, McGrain, McAleer, McNamara, MacDonald, Thompson, Ritchie, Davidson, Deans, Lynch, Murphy. Subs Casey and Little. The Celtic scorers were Deans, McDonald and Casey.
Review
Celtic look disjointed for long spells but do enough to win. The experimetal offside rule clearly does not suit Celtic.
Nearly 30,000 turned up for the game and saw the Bhoys go 2-0 up at half time. Motherwell had contested well and were somewhat unlucky to be two down. Dalglish's opener was deflected past Rennie and Wilson's goal just before half time was strongly contested by the Motherwell players and Ian St John on the touchline when Wilson scored as Motherwell tried to sub Muir who was down and injured. Motherwell pulled a goal back after the interval
Dundee Utd 3 – 1 Ayr Utd
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts |
| Dundee Utd | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 2 |
| Celtic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 2 |
| Motherwell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| Ayr Utd | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
Teams
Celtic:
Connaghan, McCluskey, Brogan, Murray, McNeill, Callaghan, Johnstone, Dalglish, Hood, Wilson, Lennox (Bone 64). Substitute:Connelly
Scorers: Dalglish (13), Wilson (45)
Motherwell:
Rennie, W Watson, Wark, R Watson, Muir (Dickson), Millar, Graham, Martin, Goldthorpe, Taylor, Kennedy. Sub: McClymont
Scorer: Martin 46
Referee: R Marshall (Clydebank)
Attendance: 27,000
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- Match Report (see end of page below)
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