Last 5 games

Head to head

• Falkirk 1 United 2, May 19 2017.

• United 2 Falkirk 2, May 16 2017.

• United 1 Falkirk 1, April 8 2017.

• Falkirk 3 United 0, February 11 2017.

• United 1 Falkirk 0, October 29 2016.

“The aim this year is to go up without being in the play-offs and a win against Falkirk would get us back on track.”

In their last three league fixtures, United have struggled to beat Brechin City at Tannadice, lost heavily away to St Mirren and rescued a draw against Dumbarton at home last Saturday.

King knows that isn’t the form of champions and that improvement is required.

What he would love is an early goal to settle any nerves.

He said: “Last weekend was a huge disappointment because we don’t want to be dropping points like that at home.

“We lost a sloppy goal, the crowd got frustrated and that led to us getting frustrated as well.

“Teams will sit in against us at Tannadice so we have to learn to deal with that a lot better.

“These games are down to how you start.

“You need to have better movement and runners off the ball than we had against Dumbarton.

“If you can get a goal early on in these games it is a whole different story, but, when you don’t, nerves kick in.