Dundee United vs Dundee - prediction, team news, lineups

Dundee United invited metropolis rivals Dundee to Tannadice Park connected Sunday day successful the relegation radical of the post-split Scottish Premiership season.

The hosts are apical of the relegation radical standings with 40 points, portion the visitors are 3rd with 33 points.

Match preview

Dundee United person faced a disappointing Scottish Premiership campaign, falling from a fantastic fourth-placed decorativeness successful 2024-25 to presently sitting seventh successful the table. 

Despite a beardown extremity to the pre-split season, winning three, drafting 1 and losing 1 of their past 5 league fixtures, the Tangerines placed seventh and trailed the apical six by six points. 

Consequently, Dundee United are acceptable to vie successful the relegation radical during the post-split term, but with a sizeable 12-point cushion implicit the bottommost two, Jim Goodwin's men volition simply beryllium looking for a beardown extremity to the play to physique a instauration up of 2026-27.

Dundee United's station divided run starts with a 3rd Dundee derby of the twelvemonth and 4th of the season, leaving the Tangerines some warring for bragging rights and looking to instrumentality points distant from their rival's endurance hopes. 

The Dee caput into the crippled having placed ninth successful the pre-split season, picking up 33 points from 33 matches, aft signaling 8 wins, 9 draws and 16 defeats.

As a result, Steven Pressley's broadside find themselves conscionable 5 points supra 11th-placed Kilmarnock successful the relegation playoff place. 

Dundee's disappointing tally of 2 defeats and 2 draws successful their past 4 fixtures has allowed the 2 teams beneath them to importantly adjacent that gap, and Pressley volition beryllium anxious for his broadside to person a much-improved post-split tally to debar being dragged deeper into the relegation battle. 

The Dee volition gully assurance from their 1-0 triumph successful their past sojourn to Tannadice Park successful January, but the spoils person been shared successful this season's Dundee derby clashes, with 1 triumph each alongside a 2-2 gully past clip out.

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Team News

Dundee United are anticipated to beryllium without Ashley Maynard-Brewer, Isaac Pappoe, Luca Stephenson, Kristijan Trapanovski and Johnny Russell owed to wounded concerns. 

Off the backmost of a melodramatic precocious 3-2 triumph against Livingston successful their past fixture, Goodwin could opt to sanction an unchanged starting 11 successful this derby clash.

Meanwhile, Dundee person conscionable 1 wounded contented heading into this game, with Clark Robertson a uncertainty to feature.

Simon Murray has scored successful each of Dundee's past 2 matches, and the striker should commencement alongside Tony Yogane and Cameron Congreve successful attack.

Dundee United imaginable starting lineup:

Richards; Cleall-Harding, Iovu, Graham; Strain, Sevelj, Agyei, Ferry; Sapsford, Ahmed; Watters

Dundee imaginable starting lineup:

McCracken; D Wright, Graham, Koumetio, Samuels; Congreve, S Wright, Hamilton, Cotterill, Yogane; Murray

We say: Dundee United 2-1 Dundee

Dundee United are successful stronger signifier heading into this encounter, and combined with the location advantage, the hosts volition beryllium expected to instrumentality each 3 points.

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