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. TV? Tick. Radio? Tick. Text? Tick.

    Dundee United v AZ Alkmaar (20:00)

    We've gone a bit overkill this evening as we have you covered on TV, radio and text. Nothing wrong with too much content, eh?

    Sportsound is already under way, and you can listen along on BBC Radio Scotland Extra, while our TV coverage from Tannadice starts at 19:45 BST on the BBC Scotland channel.

    Both will be available right at the top of this page. Easy-peasy.

  2. Shoutout to AZ for making their starting XI graphic look like a techno festival line-up...

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  3. Middleton in for first start as McGrath makes bench

    Dundee United v AZ Alkmaar (20:00)

    Dundee United boss Jack Ross has made two changes to the side that started Saturday's 1-1 draw at Kilmarnock.

    Out go Scott McMann from the defence and Anim Cudjoe from the attack as Kieran Freeman and Glenn Middleton, making his first start for the club, come in.

    New midfield signing Jamie McGrath features on the United bench.

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    Middleton appeared off the bench at Rugby Park on Saturday

  4. It's been a while...

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  5. LINE-UPS from Tannadice

    Dundee United v AZ Alkmaar (20:00)

    Dundee United: Birighitti, Smith, Edwards, Mulgrew, Freeman, Levitt, Sibbald, Harkes, Watt, Fletcher, Middleton.

    Substitutes: Eriksson, Graham, Niskanen, Clark, Chalmers, Meekison, McGrath, Fotheringham, Anim, MacLeod.

    AZ Alkmaar: Verhulst, Hatzidiakos, Beukema, Martins Indi, Kerkez, Clasie, D. De Wit, Reijnders, Evjen, Pavlidis, Lahdo.

    Substitutes: Vindahl-Jensen, Westerveld, Witry, Barasi, Dekker, Buurmeester, De Jong, Van Brederode, M. De Wit, Schouten.

  6. Team news, anyone?

  7. United make Euro return after a decade

    Dundee United v AZ Alkmaar (20:00)

    Just the 3,655 days since their last European outing, Dundee United are back.

    Jack Ross' men have a tough task on their hands as they welcome Dutch outfit AZ Alkmaar - but the Premiership side will have a sell-out Tannadice crowd behind them in what poses to be some occasion.

    Well, what we waiting on? Let's get going...

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