It's been a long and enthralling night of Scottish League Cup action and it is down to the final four.

Progress eases some of the pressure on Hibs head coach Paul Heckingbottom and Hearts counterpart Craig Levein, Celtic remain on course for a 10th consecutive domestic trophy, while Steven Gerrard is closer to a first bit of silverware as Rangers boss.

Next up for us is live coverage of the Championship game between Queen of the South and Dundee on Friday before it's back to a full card of top-flight fixtures on Saturday.

As often happens, there is a cup semi-final dress rehearsal as Hibs host Celtic! Join us then.

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Almost a year to the day since last season's quarter-finals, the result is almost exactly the same, with holders Celtic, Rangers and Hearts taking three of the places.

Instead of Aberdeen this time, Hibs complete the semi-final line-up.

Hearts will this time face Rangers instead of the Ibrox side's city rivals, with Celtic taking on Hibs.

It's Glasgow versus Edinburgh, with the matches due on 2/3 November.

Celtic's progress to the League Cup semi-final has been hailed from afar - Albania to be exact.

Ilir Meta, who has been the country's president since 2017, is a friend of former Celtic defender Rudi Vata and recently met some of the Glasgow club's fans - and they have obviously made a lasting impression judging from his tweet.

Two refeeeing decisions that will undoubtedly be analysed and scrutinised by both sets of fans were Filip Helander's last-man challenge on Lyndon Dykes and Ricki Lamie's aerial challenge that lead to Joe Aribo's head injury.

However, Rangers assistant manager Gary McAllister believes his side should have perhaps been the only side to go a man down on the night.

Speaking to BT Sports, he said: "Now that I've seen the Helander challenge, it looks as though he's caught the forward. So he could possibly have gone off.

"With the other one, I think Lamie has made a genuinely effort to go and head the ball. He's just naturally elevating his arms and elbows up. I don't think there's a movement towards the head of Joe Aribo. So it was a good decision by the referee."

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Rangers assistant manager Gary McAllister didn't shy away from a poor performance and was full of compliments for Livingston after his side's hard-fought 1-0 win.

Speaking to BT Sports, he said: "I thought we dug in well. It was very difficult.

"Lyndon Dykes caused us problems the whole evening. He's very awkward to play against. Livingston have a style and a system and they stick by it and they're good at it.

"It was not easy. It wasn't pretty on the eye, but we've ground out a result and now we go to Hampden."

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No sign of Steven Gerrard after the game in Livingston, but Rangers assistant manager Gary McAllister was on hand to speak to BT Sport about drawing either Hearts in the semi-finals of the Scottish League Cup.

"We'll take that," he says.

Livingston manager Gary Holt doesn't beat around the bush in his verdict on a match that could have quite easily swung in favour of his team.

Speaking to BBC Scotland, he says: "I thought we deserved to win the game. I really do.

"If you take away a sloppy minute of play when people weren't being responsible and doing their job, we dominated the game for large spells. The key decisions went against us."

After all the talk of the team bosses at both Edinburgh clubs being under pressure to save their jobs, both find themselves with cup semi-finals to look forward to at Hampden Park.

In Hibs' case, they had to withstand a late Kilmarnock onslaught and went behind early in the penalty shoot-out before the home side again blew their chance.

Paul Heckingbottom's side face Celtic at Hampden.

Aberdeen scored two penalties in normal time, but Craig Halkett's late equaliser and three missed spot kicks in the shoot-out by the visitors send Hearts through to the semi-finals.

Sam Cosgrove was one of the sinners, blasting over, after finding the net twice earlier.

Hearts will face Rangers in the last four.

Sam Cosgrove fires over the crossbar and Niall McGinn and Bruce Anderson both miss.

Aidan Keena scores the winning penalty for Hearts.

Scott Allan scores

Osman Sow scores

Oli Shaw's spot kick is saved#

Dom Thomas scores

Stevie Mallan scores

Liam Millar scores

Paul Hanlon scores

Stephen O'Donnell strikes the post

Tom James scores

Rory McKenzie scores

Joe Newell scores

Niko Hamalainen has his spot kick saved and Hibs are through.

Sam Cosgrove wastes an opportunity as he lashes a shot wide with three team-mates waiting inside the Hearts penalty box.

Despite late Kilmarnock pressure, Hibs survive to take the game into a spot-kick decider.

Holders Celtic await in the semi-finals.

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Stephen O'Donnell is only two yards out and has a glorious chance to secure victory for Kilmarnock.

But the Scotland right-back somehow heads wide.

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Hibs centre-half Ryan Porteous is shown a straight red card for a shocking challenge.

Kilmarnock forward Rory McKenzie gets a yellow after a bit of a stramash between the players that follows.

There's only four minutes to go at Rugby Park or we are heading for penalties.

On-loan Juventus centre-half Dario Del Fabro is only six yards out but fires about five yards wide as the home side squander a great chance to clinch victory.