Motherwell v Aberdeen: Come out fighting after Hearts defeat, demands Well boss

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Stuart Kettlewell has told his Motherwell side to come out fighting when they host Aberdeen on Sunday, and says they owe it to themselves and their fans to put in a top performance.Kettlewell was left fuming on Thursday as a Musa Drammeh strike in seven minutes was enough to earn Hearts a 1-0 win at Tynecastle, after an uncharacteristically poor Motherwell display.Kettlewell is keen that his side shows a reaction to that, but expects Aberdeen to be absolutely flying, despite their run of poor form.Kettlewell said: “In the last six games, we’ve had two wins, two draws, two defeats, and your two defeats are away to Celtic and Hearts.“Now, in normal circumstances you look at that and think there’s absolutely no shame in that string of results – and there’s absolutely not – including a very good point against Rangers, where you would expect us to come out in a very similar vein a couple of days later, but we simply didn’t.“My demand now goes to the players, and everybody here at the football club, that we show a reaction on Sunday.“I think we owe that to ourselves and our supporters to show a reaction to what was a bad day for us.“Let’s not try and dress this up, that Craig Gordon kept Hearts in the game in the last wee bit.

Yes, we created two chances, and it’s two fantastic saves from him, but we didn’t deserve anything out of that game.“We came up short of what I expect from Motherwell on Thursday.

As always, I’m a fighter, I’m somebody who will flash my teeth if I don’t feel that we’re meeting those standards. I’m someone who will continually go back to the plan that I feel that we work from every single day.“Sometimes people think you’re throwing the players out there, but I stand shoulder to shoulder with my players