Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin has expressed his disappointment following the news that striker Louis Moult will miss the upcoming home match against Celtic due to injury.
Describing it as “a bitter blow,” Goodwin confirmed that the 32-year-old forward, who had only recently returned from a two-month recovery for a knee injury, has now sustained damage to his shoulder ligaments.
This latest setback leaves Dundee United with depleted attacking options as they prepare to host Celtic at Tannadice on Sunday lunchtime.
Goodwin has managed to steer the Tayside club to fifth place in the Scottish Premiership after being promoted from the second-tier last season. That's despite suffering several injuries to key players over the course of the 2024/25 campaign so far.
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"We will be having to go without him for a few weeks unfortunately and it is a major disappointment for him and for us as a team because we have not long got him back after his previous injury," Goodwin revealed on Friday.
“It is a bitter blow. It is an area of the pitch we are light in anyway, just having the three strikers, so on Sunday we go into the game with two senior strikers available.
"I know every team goes through little spells throughout the course of a season missing key players, but I do feel we have had a really unfortunate time right from the beginning with the amount of key players we have had to go without.
“Obviously [Craig] Sibbald has been out for a long stretch, [Kristijan] Trapanovski, Ross Graham, Ross Docherty, Moult – we have never had a fully-fit squad to choose from.
“And with us not being the biggest squad anyway it makes life very difficult when you want to try and rotate or try and freshen things up.”
