Motherwell FC News

August 2004

 
Sunday, August 29
 

3.45pm

Ricky's report of the Hearts game is now available.  Enjoy!

Terry Butcher's post-match comments were as follows:
"Good second half, poor first half in terms of quality, I think both teams had a good look at each other, we certainly came out strong at the start of the second half. We took the game to Hearts and pressed them and also passed the ball a lot better, we created good chances as well.  The boys are saying it was a penalty, but you’ve still got to convert it, we didn’t do that last week but McBride stepped up again and put it into the back of the net. Then we look at Phil O’Donnell’s goal, where did he get that from??  

"Phil says he was tugged and pulled down, its nice to get a break in a big match like this as Hearts pushed us all the way. They are a quality side and this win takes us to within a point of them and back into the top six, which is nice and a clean sheet – a lot of positives as well."

On Phil O'Donnell's performance, TB added:
"He’s scored in every home game so far, hasn’t missed a game, hasn’t missed a training session and I think he is benefiting from a good pre-season. Now there is a two week break and this will help Phil and the other senior players to re-charge.

"It’s been a good week for us, a clean sheet and a third win, lots of plus points. This team can play some good stuff but they are also a competitive side, they had to be today as Hearts are a good side as well.”

"We are looking at bringing in someone who could play on the wide right role, but that would help give us a good shape, we had two players playing wide today who are not natural in those positions, but they both put a shift in and are knackered."

Guess TB is talking about Jason Bent then!

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