TEAM NEWS | FALKIRK (A)

Jim Goodwin has named his first competitive Starting XI of the season as we clash with Falkirk in the Premier Sports Cup! 

There are debuts for Ryan Strain, Vicko Ševelj, Kristijan Trapanovski and Will Ferry, with Jack Walton also starting after re-joining on loan from Luton Town. 

In the absence of Ross Docherty and with Tony Watt on the bench, Craig Sibbald skippers the side against his boyhood club. 

Seven DUFC Academy Graduates are involved in our matchday squad. 

Dundee United FC

Starting XI: Walton, Strain, Holt, Sevelj, Graham, Trapanovski, Moult, Ferry, Sibbald (c), Middleton, Thomson

Subs: Richards, Grimshaw, Fotheringham, Macleod, O’Donnell, Gallagher, Watt, Cleall-Harding, Forbes

Falkirk FC

Starting XI: Hogarth, Yeats, Henderson, Morrison, Spencer (c), MacIver, Nesbitt, Adams, Tait, Mackie, Miller

Subs: Sneddon, Agyeman, McKenna, Oliver, Shanley, Ross, Sinclair, McCafferty, McCrone