THERE was never the hint Celtic would stage a repeat of last season’s banana skin when they toppled out of the League Cup at the first hurdle against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park. Any chance of a second successive clean sweep was obliterated in Ayrshire as comeback manager Brendan Rodgers suffered his first domestic Cup defeat
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| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |
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| 1 | Celtic | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | Aberdeen | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Dundee | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Rangers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | St Johnstone | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | St Mirren | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Dundee United | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Ross County | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Motherwell | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Hearts | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 11 | Hibernian | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 0 |
| 12 | Kilmarnock | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 0 |
