Young Tangerines make 10 changes to rout Kilmarnock

A much-changed Dundee United ran out comfortable winners in their scond match in two days at their St Andrews training base yesterday.

Only Jamie Robson was retained from the team that defeated St Johnstone 48 hours earlier.

United got off to the perfect start, Aaron Duke squeezing home a Gav Ritchie cross from eight yards with less than two minutes gone.

The visitors responded well to going behind, with Chris Johnson, just back from injury, particularly prominent.

With 15 minutes gone it took a fine save from United keeper Josh Donaldson to keep out his angled effort. Ten minutes later Donaldson again came to the rescue to block a Scott McLean shot when he was through on the keeper.

In a rare foray upfield, United’s Logan Chalmers smashed a 30-yarder into the postage-stamp corner to double the lead just before the half-hour mark.

Five minutes later the visitors were three down, Duke getting his second when he headed home a pinpoint cross from Graham Taylor.

Nine minutes after the restart Chalmers claimed his double with a shot from 12 yards which took a slight deflection.

Donaldson then pulled off an instinctive one-handed save from Lewis Morrison near the end.

Dundee United: Donaldson, Ritchie, Robson, Allardice, Reekie, McNaughton, Murrell, Davie, Duke (Johnson 80), Chalmers, Taylor (Trialist 60). Subs not used: Booth, Sukar, M Smith, Ballantyne, Tumilty.