Motherwell vs Dundee - The Battle For Mark O'Hara

[K.T]

Gowser

[AnAnInginAneAnA]

Paul McGowan = Friend

 

[DigOutYourSoul]

What a great finish. Good build up play from Moussa and El Bak.

[RossDee01]

Gowser

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Sounds like a really stupid penalty that O'Hara gave away.

[RossDee01]

Sounds like we should be winning

[RossDee01]

Full time. Decent result and continues our unbeaten run at Fir Park.

[K.T]

Disappointed not to win it after the chances we had, but can’t grumble with a point away from home. Time to get the Celtic telt at Dens.

Thank you.

[Louis Litt]

Would've taken a draw beforehand but sounds like we really should have won it at the end. The bottom of the table is tight as f**k and picking up winners in games like this are what'll be the difference between pulling away and getting breathing space and being right amongst it.

 

[Ludo*1]

Suspicious that Mark O'Hara gave away the pen, very suspicious.

[DigOutYourSoul]

Feels like 2 points dropped, but would have taken a point before the game. Hitting the bar twice and the post makes it all feel worse. Brilliant save from Carson at the end to deny Meekings.

Parish - didn't really have much to do, made a good save and couldn't do much with the pen.

Kerr - crossing again poor but did put one decent ball in in the second half. Gets in good positions but always feel it's going to break down.

Hendry - strolled through the game fairly untested.

Meekings - as above but could have scored 2, the one off the post looked destined for the net.

Jon - though this was his worst game since coming into the side but still fairly steady. Fresh air kick in the second half could have been a chance.

McGowan - flashes of brilliance in the second half, really good performance.

Kamara - good performance again, so good on the ball.

O'Hara - worst game this season, he was missing for most of the match and gave away a stupid pen.

El Bak - good outlet in the first half although gave the ball away a few times. Great ball for mcgowans goal.

AJLS - I thought he was poor today , he looks like he should be quick but isn't.

Moussa - good first 15, hit the bar with a cracking header. Booking hindered his pressing and possibly should have poked in the re-bound from Meekings hitting the post.

Though Allan made a good impact off the bench.

Dundee unlucky to only come away with a point, after a decent enough performance. Would have taken a point before the game.

The drummer is annoying but fair play to the lads for trying to get a bit of atmosphere going in what would have been a graveyard otherwise.

[Casagolda]

Well that backfired spectacularly, that’ll be Cadden, Frear, Carson and Hartley all out for the next 2 games then.

Can’t fault the team for effort, especially playing with 10 men for the last half hour- 2 of whom probably would should have come off as well had we had any subs left- however it was a pretty poor display from us and we were fairly fortunate to take a point. Think Dundee hit the woodwork 3 times and Carson produced a tremendous save at the death to ensure we got the point.

Tanner was our best player by a distance and the only one who looked like creating anything, also thought the much maligned Dunne as well as Hartley and Carson done well at the back. Midfield was poor though and there’s a real lack of quality in the final third at the minute. 

All things considered a decent point, however it’s hard to take many positives from that today and it looks the next 2 games could be a real struggle.

[capt_oats]

27 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:

Suspicious that Mark O'Hara gave away the pen, very suspicious.

#welcomeMark #announceO'Hara

[Ya Bezzer!]

I've seen us play worse but our goal lead a bit of a charmed life and if we hadn't got a penalty I don't think we would have scored today.

Just about worth a point but Dundee will be disappointed not to win.

[Gianfranco]

The early subs was always going to come back and bite us at some point. What the f**k was Grimshaw doing with that chance just before half time?

We were due luck against Dundee so hitting the woodwork three times and giving us a daft penalty felt like it was due.

[MJC]

Dreadful from us today, a point was more than we deserved. I appreciate we have our injuries but we need to be turning in better performances than that in games like these.

[YassinMoutaouakil]

Liam Grimshaw is nowhere near a top flight player.

[MikeyWellFan]

A rather depressing point that's not really good enough and it seems we were lucky to even get that.

I'm desperate for this slump to end sometime soon as it's sucking the life out of a season that had a lot of promise not so long ago.

Hopefully we can got to Ibrox and upset the odds against the scum but it looks a very tall order just now.

[Gianfranco]

The amount of times I said to rambunctious today that Samson would have parried that straight to a striker when Carson caught the cross ball like the hero he is.

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

Again 3 holding players in midfield did us no favours. And two of them were shocking. Grimshaw is a clogger and McHugh is running about without a clue. All the more damning because the Dundee goal came from McGown coming untracked from midfield and he could have scored again with his chip shot that clipped the bar and was again in acres of space.

I thought the defence actualy played pretty well and Carson was again fantastic. Going forward Tanner was the only real bright spark. Tait was so-so and Cadden looked half fit from kick-off. We need to sign another striker in January that is for certain.

We seemed to have rushed everyone back too early and it seems like Cadden, Frear, Hartley and Carson are going to be out again.  Without knowing what players have said about their own fitness it is hard to put the blame on the manager but we played down a man for most of the 2nd half. So I suppose credit for gutting out the draw when Dundee were really pressing in the last 15 minutes. Still a disappointing game overall.