Dundee United F.C. vs Celtic F.C.Prediction, probable lineups, recent form & season stats

Tannadice Park stages a last-16 tie between two sides in very different shape. Dundee United have just been beaten 4-0 in Edinburgh by Heart of Midlothian, after a 1-1 draw with Rangers and a 3-2 defeat at Salford City; their two wins in the run, 4-0 against Spartans and 3-0 against Arbroath, came against lower-level opposition. Celtic opened the season with a 5-1 at Kilmarnock and a 1-0 against Dundee, having earlier drawn 2-2 with Milan and 1-1 with Middlesbrough and lost 4-1 to Sporting CP in Lisbon. The recent meetings between these two have mostly been lopsided one way or the other: 5-0 to Celtic at Tannadice in April 2025, 3-0 and 4-0 in Glasgow, while Dundee United answered with a 2-1 in December 2025 and a 2-0 last March. Three of those five games saw Celtic score at least three times. The prediction may change in the hours before kick-off. Confirmed line-ups, late injuries, suspensions, rotation ahead of other fixtures and the state of the pitch and the weather can all alter the picture described above. In those cases the selection may be reviewed and updated within 12 to 24 hours of the match: this happens rarely, but when it does, the version published on this page is always the current one. The data and assessments here are provided for information and statistical purposes.