Source: Team_Talk
Brown marvels at Well comeback
oss Craig Brown admitted he had never seen a game like it in his life after Motherwell came from four goals down to draw 6-6 with Hibernian.[LNB] The former Scotland coach was proud of his players' character after they refused to be beaten, even after Ross Forbes missed a late penalty with Well still behind.[LNB]Lukas Jutkiewicz scored a stunning injury-time volley to keep Motherwell in pole position in the race for Europe.[LNB]The game was the highest scoring in Scottish Premier League history, just beating another Fir Park clash, which came in 1999 with Well on the losing side.[LNB]"They tell me there was a game here before between Motherwell and Aberdeen that finished 6-5 and the goalkeepers were Jim Leighton and Andy Goram," Brown, 69, said.[LNB]"So it's not uncommon here. But I can't recall anything like it.[LNB]"When I was coach of the Under-21s we were 4-1 down against Germany and won 5-4 in a quarter-final but I can't recall a game quite like this one."[LNB]Well trailed 6-2 with 23 minutes left after Anthony Stokes struck a quickfire double to add to Colin Nish's first-half hat-trick and Derek Riordan's goal.[LNB]But Giles Coke and John Sutton both netted their second goals and Tom Hateley's free-kick helped set up an unforgettable finale.[LNB]Brown said: "At 6-2 I thought it was gone but I had said to the players at half-time, the most worrying thing in sport is a losing lead. It was only 4-2 at the time but it's a psychological thing.[LNB]"Another five minutes and I think we'd have won. I think they were out on their feet. I did say after Hibs lost to Hearts at the weekend they tend to lose goals late. Jutkiewicz's goal was like van Basten's."[LNB]Brown added: "At four goals down you have got to commend the character of the team and we have got to be proud of them."[LNB]Hibs boss John Hughes spoke about his team's character in the dressing room after the match.[LNB]"You need to dig deep and train like world champions," he said.[LNB]"If we had trained like that we would have seen that game out."[LNB]Hughes added: "To be 6-2 up with 25 minutes to go, I think it's self-explanatory.[LNB]"But I felt at 6-2 my strikers stopped working and it brought them on top of us. And add that on to one or two individual mistakes."
