Ross County 2 Motherwell 1: Kettlewell laments "un-Motherwell like" display as side offer too little, too late

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Motherwell boss Stuart Kettlewell felt his side put in an uncharacteristic performance as they suffered defeat in Dingwall at the hands of his old club Ross County.Despite the game beating the weather amid a host of postponements across the country due to Storm Bert, kick-off was delayed by 15 minutes due to a VAR issue.Motherwell fans were advised not to travel given the weather warnings in place and the 300 hardy souls who did make it to Dingwall will wish they hadn't bothered.There was little of note in a poor first half but the game came to life shortly after the interval with Ronan Hale slotting the ball home inside the box to give County the lead in the 47th minute.And the hosts quickly doubled their advantage when Josh Nisbet netted with 54 minutes on the clock, leaving the Steelmen with an uphill battle.Kettlewell responded by making two attacking double substitutions within the space of 12 minutes, bringing on Tawanda Maswanhise, Harry Paton, Moses Ebiye and Zach Robinson.That paid off to some extent with Robinson heading home from Lennon Miller's brilliant free-kick delivery into the box to pull one back in 83 minutes.The goal only stood after a lengthy VAR check, but it proved too little too late, even with 11 minutes of stoppage time played, leaving the Steelmen to travel back down the A9 empty-handed.Kettlewell said: “We were pretty comfortable in the first half, albeit we could have fashioned more chances.“The message at half time was to look for more risky passes and openings in their final third, but we didn’t quite execute that.“The start of the second half irks me and it became a bit farcical with the stop-start nature of it."There was never a flow allowed to the game because of the fouls given, and