Motherwell boss Stuart Kettlewell says it’s a ‘sad indictment’ of where his squad is at after holding back from some alterations in a 2-1 at Johnstone.
The Fir Park side got ahead early in the game through an Andy Halliday penalty but couldn’t add more goals to their tally. An improved first half after Scottish Cup defeat at the same ground and against the same opponent was not built on, and Saints capitalised with two late goals.
Taylor Steven and Bozo Mikulic scored twice within a minute from set-piece routines to leave Motherwell on a run of one win in nine across all competitions. Motherwell introduced goalkeeper Ellery Balcombe into his team for a debut after an injury to Norwich City loanee Archie Mair.
Kettlewell has said he needs players to get up to 90-minute speed ASAP but trying to protect the fit group he has is also on his mind. Lennon Miller, Apostolos Stamatelopoulos, Steve Seddon, Callum Slattery and Jack Vale were just some of the players not available for this clash.
He said: “Archie’s sustained an injury but we’ll give you the extent of it once we know the exact timeframe and what that situation looks like. At the end of the day, we are trying to get a reaction, we try to get a change of outcome. We are trying to get a change of form. We’ve had a draw against Kilmarnock in that wee run that I’m speaking about.
We didn’t deserve the draw within that, being brutally honest. So we’re trying to freshen things up and see if we can get a different outcome. That looked promising for stages of the game, but again, I’d dissect it. I was asked about the style of football, you talk about how you want to play and all the rest of it. There’s so many different facets to that.
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