Top scorer Danny Cadamarteri has not trained properly all week after suffering a dead leg, while defender Andy Webster has been another absentee with a groin problem.
Skipper Lee Wilkie has been laid low by a flu virus so is likely to miss out, Danny Swanson is suspended, but one plus for the Tangerines is the return of Morgaro Gomis after a calf problem. Long-term crocks Francisco Sandaza and Jon Daly remain out.
Dundee Utd (from): Weaver, Dixon, Dods, Kenneth, Kovacevic, Webster, Dillon, McCord, Gomis, Conway, D Robertson, S Robertson, Buaben, Myrie-Williams, Goodwillie, Casalinuovo, Cadamarteri, Banks.
