HALF-TIMEpublished at 13:04 Greenwich Mean Time 1 January 2015
Kevin Clancy brings the first half to a close and it's not been good viewing for fans of Dundee.
Aberdeen go top of Premiership
Celtic second with their game off
Wins for Inverness, Hamilton and Kilmarnock
Bottom three all lose
Clive Lindsay
Kevin Clancy brings the first half to a close and it's not been good viewing for fans of Dundee.
Partick Thistle have just Tweeted to say their game against Celtic tonight is off after a 1pm pitch inspection.
Two minutes left of what has been a nightmare first half for Paul Hartley's Dundee side.
Is there any way back into this one for the Dark Blues?
Dundee are in serious bother now as Gary Mackay-Steven latches on to Stuart Armstrong's through-ball and sweeps a left foot finish beyond Arvid Schenk, who is not having the best of debuts in the Dundee goal.
Gary Mackay-Steven curled home a beautiful goal to give United a 2-1 lead.
Greg Stewart's brilliant free kick sparked wild celebrations amongst the Dundee players and backroom team, but their smiles were short-lived as United soon hit back with two goals.
Alan Ryan: Commentary is making this sound like exciting stuff.
Lee Gardiner: Not a great advert for Scottish defences!
Gary Harkins loses the ball and United's John Rankin breaks forward, has a look and then takes a pop from distance with his excellent left foot. The ball almost scrapes the paint off Arvid Schenk's left hand post on its way past.
bringthemonjpn: Great game of football. Pace is faster than a Hamley's Christmas till. Even the ball boys could lose count of the score.
Dundee United have had their porridge this morning.
A hopeful ball into the box from Conor Townsend somehow makes its way to Chris Erskine and he cuts back inside and fires a shot that takes a touch and finds its way into the net.
Mick Walsh: Good game so far, some goal by Dundee!!!!
Another cracking goal sends Dundee United in front again. Gary Mackay-Steven bamboozles Paul McGowan on the right flank and then cuts inside and curls the ball into the top corner.
What a start to the year...
And Greg Stewart makes full use of the chance. The striker curls an absolute peach with his left foot into the top corner from just outside the area.
Dundee United's Callum Butcher picks up a caution for a challenge on Gary Harkins. Free kick in a useful position.
Gary Harkins has been Dundee's star man so far but with Paul McGowan standing in acres of space in the area, Harkins over-hits a simple ball and the chance is gone. McGowan doesn't look impressed with his team-mate.
Dundee win a corner and Gary Harkins' delivery finds Thomas Konrad in the area but his header is tame, and slides well wide of the target.
Dundee's Gary Harkins drops his shoulder to create himself a yard of space on the left hand side of United's box, but his left foot shot is easily gathered by goalkeeper Radoslaw Cierzniak.
The first 15 minutes have flown by at Tannadice, it's been frenetic but both sides are trying to get the ball down and play.
We're just hearing that there is a 1pm pitch inspection at Firhill, with Celtic and Partick Thistle due to meet there at 17:30 this evening.
We'll keep you up to date with any news from there...
Stuart Armstrong didn't know a great deal about his opening goal but that will make no difference to him or the United fans.