St Mirren have been geeing up their fans with a compilation of their side's best goals this season.

Dundee United head coach Robbie Neilson says it's down to his team to take advantage of the expected sell-out home crowd tonight.

"It's Tannadice, we've got a full house, we're expected to win the game and we expect to go and win it," Neislon tells Sportsound. "It's going to be very difficult, but we want to take a lead down there to give us some sort of advantage.

"It's a massive game for everyone. We're hoping that we sell it out tonight, the fans have been great and we just need to make sure we put on a performance and send them home happy."

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They would have preferred it to have arrived earlier, and lasted longer, but both sides have hit a bit of form at what they will hope is just the right moment.

United have won five of their last six matches, losing once - away to Greenock Morton in their final league game after the title had been won by Ross County.

Robbie Neilson's side are looking for a fourth consecutive home win and tasted victory over tonight's visitors in their only meeting this season - United leaving Paisley with a 2-1 Scottish Cup win in February.

However, Oran Kearney's Buddies have become a more dangerous and cohesive beast since then and are unbeaten in six outings, which includes an unbeaten four-match run away from home.

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Mark Reynolds is on loan with Dundee United from Aberdeen but is so confident that the Terrors will soon be back challenging with the Dons in the top six of the Premiership that the centre-half has agreed a three-year contract to make his switch permanent this summer.

The Dons never plummeted out of the top flight, but the 32-year-old former Scotland squad member sees the same building blocks being put in place that took them out of the misery felt by three consecutive ninth-place finishes when he joined them seven years ago.

Dundee United sporting director Tony Asghar has been giving head coach Robbie Neilson the vote of confidence on Sportsound regardless of the result of this tie, describing him as one of the "best young coaches in the UK".

"I think [owner] Mark Ogren and the board have faith in Robbie and the players have faith in Robbie," Ashgar says. "I don't foresee any talk like that at all and part of the sporting director's role is to make sure we don't have a knee jerk reaction when things don't go well.

"When we came in in January, the plan was to try to get promotion, we're now a very small distance away from trying to achieve that objective. It's huge for us all."

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Dundee United manager Robbie Neilson stays faithful to the starting line-up that defeated Inverness Caley Thistle 3-0 on Friday to complete an aggregate win.

It means Calum Butcher, the midfielder who was sent off in United's 2-1 win over St Mirren in the Scottish Cup in February, misses out again with a groin injury.

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Defender Gary MacKenzie has recovered from the head knock suffered against Hamilton Academical that forced him to miss Saturday's win over Dundee.

But striker Simeon Jackson misses out again with a hamstring strain and Cody Cooke starts up front after his hat trick as a substitute at Dens Park.

On-loan Rangers defender Lee Hodson also comes into the side.

Forward Danny Mullen drops to the bench along with former Croatia Under-21 defender Mateo Muzek, while on-loan Blackburn Rovers midfielder Brad Lyons misses out.

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With 10,700 tickets having been bought by United fans by early this morning, the home club are expecting a near capacity crowd - and certainly their biggest home support since the 2015 New Years Day 6-2 victory over city rivals Dundee.

St Mirren reported that they had almost sold their allocation by Tuesday.

Dundee United are looking to avoid a fourth season in the Championship.

St Mirren are aiming to avoid a return to the second tier after one season in the Premiership.

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St Mirren are looking for Dundee double.

Finishing second bottom not only ensured that the city's Dark Blues suffered automatic relegation, but the Buddies finished their season by rubbing it in with a 3-2 win at Dens Park on Saturday.

However, Cody Cooke's hat-trick - his first league goals of the season - was not quite enough to save his side from finishing second bottom after Hamilton Academical won at home to St Johnstone.

Dundee United: Siegrist, Bouhenna, Reynolds, Watson, Harkes, Pawlett, Connolly, Robson, McMullan, Sow, Clark.

Substitutes: Laidlaw, Booth, Frans, Stanton, Safranko, C Smith, M Smith.

St Mirren: Hladky, MacKenzie, Baird, Popescu, P McGinn, S McGinn, Flynn, Hodson, Magennis, McAllister, Cooke.

Substitutes: Holmes, Ferdinand, Muzek, Erhahon, MacPherson, Mullen, Nazon.

Referee: Bobby Madden

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Quiet now, but this place will be throbbing shortly...

Sportsound has already had half an hour of the build-up on air.

So tune in to BBC Radio Scotland 810MW, where Richard Gordon is joined by former Dundee winger and manager Neil McCann, former Dundee United wide man Allan Preston and our chief sports writer, Tom English.

Brian McLauchlin is doing the trackside interview duties, while live commentary follows from Alasdair Lamont.

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The long-drawn-out process that is the Scottish Premiership Play-offs is reaching its final stages as Dundee United host St Mirren in the first leg of the final tonight.

For United, the goal is promotion, having got here by finishing runners-up to Ross County in the Championship title race then beating third-placed Inverness Caledonian Thistle in their two-leg semi-final.

For St Mirren, it was more straightforward as they look to avoid relegation after finishing second bottom in the top flight.

Stay with us for all the build-up, match commentary and post-match reaction from Tannadice Park here on the BBC Sport website and on BBC Radio Scotland 810MW.

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