Captain Ross Graham is urging his Dundee United team-mates not to let themselves be the side that changes Celtic’s fortunes.
The Glasgow club have lost their first three games under new manager Wilfried Nancy, including Sunday’s League Cup final to St Mirren, while United are winless in seven Premiership matches.
Centre-back Graham, who recently returned from an eight-month injury lay-off, said: “I’m not sure there’s ever a good time to get Celtic.
“They’re a top team, they’ve got really high quality players so we need to be switched on in that aspect.
“They’re not going to be on this run of form forever, so we have to try and make sure that doesn’t change for them on Wednesday night.
“We’ve gone behind in most games we’ve played this season. We’ve tried to cut that out recently.
“We know Celtic are a top side, they’ve got really good players and a good manager there as well but we look to focus on ourselves because we know how much we can hurt them.
“We’ll play on the front foot, especially at Tannadice, with our home support. So, we’ll get as much juice out of them as we can and they’ll drive us forward.
“In recent weeks we’ve had a couple of good performances and we’ve just been lacking that cutting edge.
“There’s pressure in any game but we’ll still go into the Celtic match as underdogs.
“We’ve probably been better at that this season against the bigger teams so we’ll use that to our advantage as well and try and go and get the three points.”
