Summary

  • Watch live coverage on BBC Scotland

  • Middleton bends terrific strike into far corner on his first Utd start for deserved lead

  • Birighitti denies AZ striker Pavlidis with sprawling save late on

  • Sides meet again in the Netherlands next Thursday

Live Reporting

Nick McPheat

  1. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Craig Easton
    Former Dundee Utd midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    Mark Birighitti does well there. It was a pretty standard save but he palms it away into an area that isn't dangerous. That was the big part of it.

  2. GREAT SAVE!

    Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    As BBC Scotland commentator Liam McLeod rightly points out, United lost a late goal at Killie last Saturday to draw 1-1.

    They won't want to experience that again as Mark Birighitti denies a fierce Pavlidis strike from the edge.

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  5. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    AZ have shown how good they can be but it's not been often enough.

    The Eredivisie side have shown very little since Middleton's cracker.

  6. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Because they know what he's capable of, Craig. And he very nearly showed it again!

  7. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Craig Levein
    Former Scotland manager on BBC Sportsound

    I love that! The ball hadn't even reached Charlie Mulgrew yet and all you could hear were the shouts to shoot.

  8. CLOSE!

    Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Take two. Another corner after Ilmari Niskanen wins it on the right.

    This corner is better from Levitt, but it's cleared from the AZ defence.

    The ball reaches Charlie Mulgrew. 'SHOOOOT!' shout the home crowd. He does so and it's just wide of the right-hand post.

  9. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Ehh... less said about that delivery the better.

    Let's put it down to tired legs.

  10. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    United pull themselves up the park and get a corner.

    Dylan Levitt to swing it in...

  11. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Craig Easton
    Former Dundee Utd midfielder on BBC Sportsound

    Dundee United's shape at the back is keeping AZ away from goal. The communication between the full-backs and wingers is really impressive.

  12. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Another change for United as Ilmari Niskanen is on to replace goalscorer Glenn Middleton.

    He'll spend the next 48 hours watching that goal on repeat. And rightly so.

  13. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Craig Levein
    Former Scotland manager on BBC Sportsound

    Sometimes players subconsciously start to play in a way that will defend the lead. United are doing it a bit now and it won't be an instruction from Jack Ross. It's a mistake.

  14. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    AZ work the free-kick to the edge of the box and Martins Indi lets fly.

    Ryan Edwards is there, YET AGAIN, to get his head on it.

    What a night he's having.

  15. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Glenn Middleton's in the book after scything down Kerkez in a dangerous position on the left.

    Middleton says he got the ball. I say he's telling massive porky pies.

  16. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Free-kick wide on the right and it's Charlie Mulgrew who'll bend it in.

    AZ get it away after two attempts. The home crowd are really enjoying themselves.

  17. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Mind I questioned if United could keep this intensity up?

    72 minutes in and they are still going at it 100mph.

  18. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    'Are you Dundee in disguise?' getting belted out from the Tannadice crowd...

  19. Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar

    Offt... a Bruno Martins Indi cross looks really dangerous but Charlie Mulgrew gets a flick on it.

    Or maybe he didn't...? Goal kick given.

  20. Middleton celebratesSNS