Scottish Cup fifth round draw: Spartans earn Premiership draw while Rangers, Celtic and Aberdeen discover foes
Here’s the entire Scottish Cup draw as Spartans remain in the competition.
Spartans will take on Dundee United in the Scottish Cup fifth round after the last 16 draw was complete on Sunday night.
The League Two side are the only club from Edinburgh left in the competition after Hearts and Hibs exited the competition on Saturday, and their reward is a trip to Tannadice against a top flight club. Other standout ties include Aberdeen hosting Motherwell, Airdrie taking on Premier Sports Cup winners St Mirren while a local derby between Stenhousemuir and Falkirk takes place. Dunfermline Athletic vs Kelty Hearts is another local derby.
The procedure was done after Celtic’s win over West of Scotland Football League side Auchinleck Talbot. Dougie Samuel’s side won on penalties against League One title chasers Inverness Caledonian Thistle after a goalless draw, Hearts loanee Kenzi Nair firing home the winner after shootout saves by keeper Paddy Martin.
What happened in the Scottish Cup fifth round
The last 32 stage of the competition kicked off with Rangers defeating Annan Athletic before Championship side Dunfermline Athletic stunned Hibs 1-0 at East End Park. Hibs head coach David Gray said: “I don’t want to make excuses, yes, we had chances, but we didn’t play well enough for long enough periods in the game to stand here and say we deserve to go through; that’s everyone’s responsibility, especially mine because I pick the team and I put the players on the pitch.
“Cup competitions are very unforgiving. The performance can sometimes be secondary as long as you find a way to get in the next round and we’ve not done that today. I could stand and talk about chances we missed at key times, and don’t get me wrong if we do take those chances, then it does become a different game, but whilst it’s 0-0 you run the risk of losing a goal. Their goal probably summed us up at the end. Unfortunately, and I mean this in the greatest respect to Dunfermline because congratulations to them, it wasn’t good enough from us.”
Motherwell, Stenhousemuir, Dundee United, Partick Thistle, Elgin City, Airdrie, St Mirren, Dundee and Kelty Hearts all progress before Falkirk won on penalty kicks against Hearts, after a 1-1 draw at Tynecastle. Hearts boss Derek McInnes said: “Our reaction to going out of the League Cup was brilliant, as you've seen in the league. The only benefit you get for this is a few games less.
“You want a cup run, there's no positives really to take as it stands now. We've got eight days before we play Celtic. We'll dust ourselves down, we'll see where we are, we'll get over this disappointment because that's the job. We'll be ready for them when it comes round.”
Holders Aberdeen then defeated Raith Rovers at Pittodrie on Sunday and Celtic got the better of Auchinleck in the final game of the weekend. Stranraer and Queen’s Park was postponed with that tie being played on Tuesday.
Scottish Cup fifth round draw in full
Aberdeen vs Motherwell
Airdrie vs St Mirren
Dundee United vs Spartans
Dunfermline Athletic vs Kelty Hearts
Stenhousemuir vs Falkirk
Rangers vs Stranraer vs Queen’s Park
Celtic vs Dundee
Elgin City vs Partick Thistle