Dundee United vs Hibernian - prediction, team news, lineups

Dundee United invited Hibernian to Tannadice Park connected Saturday day for a matchday 8 clash successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts are ninth successful the standings with 8 points from 7 games, with the visitors conscionable 1 constituent down successful 10th.

Match preview

Dundee United started the 2026-27 play with 3 wins from 4 Scottish League Cup radical fixtures, ensuring their constrictive progression from Group B successful archetypal spot - lone up of Montrose connected extremity difference.

The Tangerines failed to physique connected that momentum implicit the pursuing 4 games, featuring 2 defeats and 1 gully successful the league and their elimination from the League Cup against Celtic successful the 2nd round. 

Jim Goodwin's broadside yet secured their archetypal triumph of the Scottish Premiership play connected matchday four, claiming a fantastic 4-0 triumph against Kilmarnock, and that has sparked an upturn successful signifier for the Tangerines. 

Dundee United person present won two, drawn 1 and mislaid 1 of their past 4 outings, including a 3-0 triumph against St Mirren successful the last lucifer earlier the planetary break.

Goodwin's broadside volition beryllium anxious to unafraid their archetypal back-to-back wins of the play by claiming 3 points connected Saturday, which could besides spot the Tangerines ascent into the apical six depending connected results elsewhere.

The Tangerines have, however, struggled astatine location truthful acold this term, failing to triumph immoderate of their 3 games astatine Tannadice Park successful the league, though Hibernian's caller struggles volition springiness the hosts confidence. 

Hibernian endured a mixed commencement to the season, progressing to the Conference League playoff qualifying circular earlier losing to Gent and winning 2 of their archetypal 3 league matches. 

While Hibernian person since managed to publication their spot successful the League Cup semi-finals, wherever they volition instrumentality connected rivals Hearts, their signifier successful the league has taken a crook for the worse. 

Hibs, pursuing 2 wins and 1 nonaccomplishment successful their archetypal 3 league games, recorded 3 consecutive defeats successful the pursuing matches, featuring defeats to Hearts, St Johnstone and Kilmarnock. 

David Gray was subsequently dismissed aft the nonaccomplishment to Kilmarnock, which marked Hibernian's sixth consecutive location defeat, leaving John Potter successful complaint connected an interim basis. 

Potter managed to extremity their losing streak with a 1-1 gully against Aberdeen successful the last crippled earlier the break, and newly-appointed Marink Reedijk volition present beryllium tasked with ending their four-game winless league run. 

Reedijk, who has been tasked with starring Hibernian backmost to the apical extremity of the Scottish Premiership, volition beryllium looking to widen Gray's awesome grounds against Dundee United. 

Hibs person not mislaid successful immoderate of their past six clashes with the Tangerines, including signaling a 3-2 triumph successful their past gathering successful February 2026.

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Team News

Dundee United stay without the services of Mehdi Merghem and Emmanuel Agyei owed to ongoing wounded issues, portion the remainder of the squad is disposable for selection.

After signaling a 3-0 triumph successful their last lucifer earlier the planetary break, Goodwin whitethorn opt to sanction an unchanged starting 11 connected Saturday afternoon.

As for Hibernian, Jordan Obita, Rocky Bushiri, Kanayochukwu Megwa and Marko Ivezic are expected to miss retired owed to wounded and illness.

Martin Boyle scored his 3rd extremity of the league play successful the gully with Hibernian, and the striker is apt to proceed alongside Owen Elding and Callum Wright successful attack.

Dundee United imaginable starting lineup:

Walton; Rawlins, Esselink, Forbes, Ciubotaru; Iqbal, Tait, Cameron; Randall, Metsoko, Bennie

Hibernian imaginable starting lineup:

Sallinger; Kerr, Hanley, Iredale; Passlack, Mulligan, Chaiwa, Mayor; Wright; Boyle, Elding

We say: Dundee United 2-1 Hibernian

Dundee United person started to find signifier successful caller outings, and with Hibernian inactive getting to grips nether their caller manager, we are predicting the hosts volition triumph this one.

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