Aberdeen v Motherwell: Well must silence Miovski to take points, says star
dailyrecord.co.ukCalum Butcher says Motherwell will need to keep red-hot striker Bojan Miovski quiet if they are to silence boss Neil Warnock and emerge from Aberdeen with Premiership points this evening.Miovski is on a run of 10 goals in as many games and the North Macedonian has 22 from 41 appearances in total this season.Butcher doesn’t know what to expect from Warnock, but is eager to take some frustration out on the Dons after Friday night’s Scottish Cup fifth round exit at the hands of Championship side Morton at Cappielow.Motherwell go into the Pittodrie showdown locked on 25 points with the Dons, and are keen to get their noses in front.Former Dundee United, Millwall and Burton Albion stopper Butcher said: “Miovski is a good player.
They’ve got a lot of good players in their team and probably shouldn’t be where they are, with the squad they’ve got and the budget they have.“They will want to kick on as much as they can.“We need to nullify Miovski and try and get a result.“You always want to play against the best players in the league and test yourselves against them.“We need to come out on top.”Motherwell pulled a goal back through Jack Vale on Friday, but the damage was done with keeper Liam Kelly fumbling a Robbie Crawford corner off of team-mate Harry Paton’s ankle, and a strike from ex-Accies hit man George Oakley putting Morton 2-0 ahead.Butcher said: “Of course being told we lost the physical battle [on Friday] hurts.“We pride ourselves as a team in being physical and doing the ugly side of the game right.“For long periods of that Morton game we didn’t do that.“We got sucked into how they wanted to play and didn’t stamp our authority on the game.“There’s no excuses for why that happened.“It will take some time to get that
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