Motherwell 1 - 5 Livingston

By Paul Marshall
October 26 2002

Motherwell today suffered their worst result this season against a side we just can't beat. In our five matches with the SPL new boys we've never beat them, but today's result was surely the worst and probably our most embarassing in recent years. The fans were booing at the final Whistle.

Motherwell	1 - 5	Livingston
Kemas 79		Makel 9
		Toure-Maman 48
		Toure-Maman 58
		Bingham 81
		Xuasa 90

Motherwell Line Up

Woods
Corrigan
Cowan
Hammell
Ramsay
Leitch
Lasley
Pearson
Adams
Lehmann
Kemas




Livingston Line Up

Broto
Quino
Makel
O'Brien
Dadi
Wilson
Bingham
Brinquin
Bollan
Rubio
Andrews


Woods and Ramsay under pressure !

Scott Leitch and Stephen Pearson returned from injury today and forward Khaled Kemas made his first team debut for Motherwell. Star man of the first half was Hammell who crossed in a number of excellent crosses from free kicks and corners which caused the Livingston defence and Keeper Broto major problems but it was the away side who made the breakthrough after 9 minutes when Lee Makel collected the ball 35 yards out and shot past a helpless Stevie Woods.



Ramsay - Another solid performance

In the second half Motherwell just fell apart, Cherif Toure-Maman got the first of his two goals after only three minutes easily beating Stevie Woods, his second goal of the day killed the match as a contest when Dadi crossed from the right and Toure-Maman who was at the edge of the box hit a shot which flew into the bottom left hand corner. David Bingham and substitute Davide Xuasa got the other Livingston goals. The only good thing about this game was the appearance of Khaled Kemas who made his first team debut and got a goal.

Amazingly after not winning a game since September 10th against Celtic we're still not bottom of the league, next weeks battle with Thistle at Firhill will now be the most important game of the season so far.


Bring on Thistle !