Source: Team_Talk
Well boss grateful for Knox rant
Jamie Murphy glanced home Tom Hateley's 69th-minute free-kick at Fir Park to seal a narrow home win move Motherwell 12 points clear of the SPL bottom six.[LNB]Motherwell controlled much of the first half without cutting Kilmarnock open often, although Cammy Bell saved well from Murphy, who scored the only goal against Hibernian seven days earlier.[LNB]Brown believes their training sessions at Toryglen indoor football centre near Hampden throughout the harsh winter have helped his players maintain an edge over 90 minutes to keep their nine-match unbeaten SPL run going.[LNB]And Knox was also on hand to fire the players up for the second period.[LNB]Brown said: "We weren't at our best but, although I'm probably a bit biased, I think we just shaded it.[LNB]"One or two players were a bit short of their best. They know that and my colleague has told them that.[LNB]"He is a bit more forceful in some of the expletives that were required at half-time.[LNB]"We have been a very good second-half team. Our best performances are in the second half - they are anxious to please and they are fit."[LNB]Brown, whose team have now kept eight clean sheets in 2010, added: "When you go a goal up the other team throws everything at you, they were playing four up front, but we had the best chance on the counter attack.[LNB]"Jamie Murphy was through again, I was giving him a it of stick for missing but he said his boot came off.[LNB]"He could have had a hat-trick, he was through one on one in the first half."[LNB]Kilmarnock boss Jimmy Calderwood agreed that Motherwell just edged the play but the visitors were unimpressed with the free-kick that led to Murphy's goal.[LNB]Giles Coke appeared to have lost control of the ball before Iain Brines penalised James Fowler for a challenge from behind just outside the box.[LNB]"I thought Motherwell started much stronger," said Calderwood, whose team suffered their first defeat in eight games.[LNB]"Again we started sloppy, they were causing problems with their movement. We were lucky to go in at half-time all square.[LNB]"The second half we were a bit better, and I thought the goal wasn't a free-kick. The boys were saying it wasn't a foul.[LNB]"We had too many people in the wall, there was a bit of disorganisation and they got the break.[LNB]"We had to go for it and we started playing but we couldn't get the break and probably didn't deserve it."[LNB][LNB]
