Source: FOOTYMAD
Motherwell Will Have No Sympathy For Falkirk
Motherwell have the chance of European football again next season so will be driving for a win today. The Fir Park future looks bright according to Jamie Murphy who believes the club will build on their initial success under Craig Brown. A 12-game winning run was ended last week by Dundee United and the club now sit just two points off a guaranteed European place. Murphy is sure Motherwell can bounce back from last weekend's defeat and push for Europe, and then look forward to next season with optimism as the likes of Stephen Craigan and Keith Lasley consider the offer of contract extensions. Murphy said: "Stevie Hammell has signed a new contract and he deserves that because he has been one of the best players this season. I'm sure a few of the others will follow him. If they do that, there's only going to be an improvement for next season. That's really the big aim - once we get Europe - to try to improve for next season. Everyone is going into every game looking forward to it. There are a couple of big games coming up and hopefully we can push for Europe. We know last week was maybe a blip, but hopefully this weekend we can come out flying like we had been doing in the previous weeks."Motherwell have no fresh injury worries for today's game with bottom side Falkirk. Teenage defender Dario Quinn is pushing for a place in the first-team squad but Marc Fitzpatrick and Shaun Hutchinson will be staying on the sidelines with hamstring injuries. Falkirk striker Carl Finnigan has experience of escaping from relegation just before the fat lady sang. Falkirk were heading for the Division until Michael Higdon's goal at Inverness 20 minutes before the end of the season put the home side down. Falkirk have been favourites to go down for most of this season and they curently languish four points adrift at the foot of the table, but Finnigan feels their experience can give them the inner strength and belief to get out of trouble again. He said: "It was the same position last year, we were at the bottom for a long time during the season and we were still in the SPL come the end of the season. So we have that confidence and belief that it can happen no matter what, and it's not over until that 90 minutes is up on the last game of the season. We all believe that. Obviously, we want to get out of that situation before the last 20 minutes of the season, but if it comes down to that, I know we'll have strength of character to carry on and hopefully get out of it."There are doubts over Enoch Showunmi availability as the striker has not trained all week due to a foot injury and could join the suspended Brian McLean on the sidelines. However, Colin Healy will return from illness and Danijel Marceta has begun training again following an ankle problem, although Vitor Lima (knee) may miss out once more. Editor Ger Harley (ger@scottishfitba.net)Admin Team (admin@scottishfitba.net)This is Scottish-Fitba.Net
