Dundee United boss Peter Houston will not be resting players ahead of the Active Nation Scottish Cup final after his team secured European football. United guaranteed a top-four finish with a 3-2 victory over Motherwell on Sunday and are 12 points ahead of nearest challengers Hibernian with four games remaining.

Houston said: "It makes it a wee bit more difficult now because people are saying, now that it's almost third guaranteed, you can rest legs here and give other people a game.

"But when people are hot and playing really well and you leave them out for a couple of weeks, then sometimes they lose that wee bit of sharpness and form. So there's a balance to be made there.

"Anybody with knocks I probably won't play. Garry Kenneth was injured at the weekend, I had to stick him on the bench because we didn't have any defensive cover. I'm glad I didn't need to put him on.

"The squad will not change - the team along with (Danny) Cadamarteri, (Fran) Sandaza and Jennison Myrie-Williams will be the squad that will flicker between games."