| 7 | Hearts | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 52 |
| 8 | Motherwell | 38 | 14 | 7 | 17 | -17 | 49 |
| 9 | Kilmarnock | 38 | 12 | 8 | 18 | -19 | 44 |
| 10 | Dundee | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | -22 | 41 |
| 11 | Ross County | 38 | 9 | 10 | 19 | -28 | 37 |
| 12 | St Johnstone | 38 | 9 | 5 | 24 | -30 | 32 |
A live stream of Wednesday night’s encounter between Motherwell and Aberdeen is available worldwide.
If you’re in the UK or Republic of Ireland, a live stream of the game will be available to buy on a pay-per-view basis for £12.
International-based supporters can watch via their usual subscription at live.motherwellfc.co.uk.
Kick-off at Fir Park is at 6.15pm.
“We will keep doing what we are doing and keep believing. We’ve no doubt at all we will turn it around.”
The manager looks ahead to the clash with the Dons on Wednesday night.
We have been out in our local community delivering festive parcels to those in need, in association with the SPFL Trust.
Each box contains £35 worth of supplies, such as soup, sweets and soap to help those who need it most.
There are real extremes of poverty we are giving help to. People who don’t have money to turn the electricity on, or to switch the oven on to cook food.
Because of the surge in the Covid-19 virus, many of these people will be spending Christmas Day alone.
We are here to try and improve people’s lives. So many in our area are finding things tough just now, and we’re stepping up to help.
“It’s an opportunity for us to get some positive results and points back on the board.”
Mark O’Hara previews Wednesday’s visit of Aberdeen.
The ‘Well Shop will close at 3pm on Christmas Eve.
Thereafter, the shop will remain closed until tier four restrictions are lifted by the Scottish Government, provisionally scheduled for 18 January.
During this period, the shop will still be able to accept online orders for delivery or click and collect. Orders will be fulfilled twice a week, which may result in longer despatch times, but fans can be assured that precautions have been taken to ensure staff are working in a safe environment.
Any click and collect orders can be picked up from the shop between 12pm and 4pm on Wednesday 30 December, Monday 4 and 11 January, and Friday 8 and 15 January.
Please note that the shop staff will be unable to offer in-person exchanges and refunds during the tier four restrictions. Instead, the Christmas exchange and returns period has been extended until 7 February, facilitating the use of this service when the shop reopens.
The team at the ‘Well Shop wish to express their thanks to fans for their patience in what is a very fluid situation. To keep abreast of updates, be sure to keep an eye on social media channels.
Prior to Christmas, the shop will open between 9.30am and 5pm, Monday-Wednesday, and from 9.30am to 3pm on Christmas Eve.
Motherwell host Aberdeen on Wednesday night in the run to the end of 2020.
These are the storylines ahead of the Scottish Premiership match.
Motherwell have one home win in their last five and are currently on a streak of four straight home losses at Fir Park.
Making home a tough place to come for the opposition is high up the agenda, with two home victories in the league in 2020/21 recorded compared to four away.
Aberdeen’s weekend win over Kilmarnock pulled them level on points with second-placed Celtic in the Premiership, albeit with a worse goal difference and having played two more games.
That also left Motherwell sitting 13 points behind the Dons in the league, meaning there’s sizable ground to make up for the fifth-placed Steelmen to emulate last season’s third spot finish.
Motherwell have won the last two encounters between the two sides, picking up 3-0 and 1-0 away victories at Pittodrie.
Last time at Fir Park, Aberdeen were convincing 3-0 winners. Indeed, you have to go back to April 2019 for the last time the home team won this fixture – a 3-1 victory for the Dons.
A live stream of Wednesday night’s encounter between Motherwell and Aberdeen is available worldwide.
If you’re in the UK or Republic of Ireland, a live stream of the game will be available to buy on a pay-per-view basis for £12.
International-based supporters can watch via their usual subscription at live.motherwellfc.co.uk.
Kick-off at Fir Park is at 6.15pm.
Aberdeen come calling on Wednesday night to ML1.
If you’re in the UK or Republic of Ireland, a live stream of the game will be available to buy on a pay-per-view basis for £12.
International-based supporters can watch via their usual subscription at live.motherwellfc.co.uk.
Kick-off on Wednesday at Fir Park is at 6.15pm.
Motherwell were victorious in the first meeting between the two sides this season, running out 3-0 winners at Pittodrie.
Goals from Mark O’Hara, Christopher Long and Bevis Mugabi saw Stephen Robinson’s men come back down the road with the three points in late September.
In 2019/20, the Steelmen also won the last encounter between the pair 1-0 away from home. Before that, Aberdeen won 3-0 at Fir Park.
Aberdeen’s 2-0 win at Kilmarnock on Sunday made for back-to-back wins for the Dons for the last time since early October.
Their last 10 matches have brought four wins, three draws and three defeats for the side sitting in third.
Motherwell are without a win in six, having drawn with St Johnstone away and lost to Celtic, Rangers, St Johnstone, Hibernian and St Mirren.
At home, four defeats in a row mean the last win at Fir Park came in the 4-0 thrashing of Ross County in late October.
If you’re in the UK or Republic of Ireland, a live stream of the game will be available to buy on a pay-per-view basis for £12.
International-based supporters can watch via their usual subscription at live.motherwellfc.co.uk.
There’s still time to get your hands on a late Motherwel FC Christmas gift.
We’ve launched the ML1 T-shirt range, a special run of six designs featuing parts of Fir Park which may not be immediately obvious. But if you know, you know.
“The scoreline doesn’t reflect how disciplined we were. Unfortunately, we made mistakes and we got punished.”
Stephen Robinson speaks after the 3-1 loss at Rangers.
Motherwell put in a dogged showing at league leaders Rangers, but ultimately lost out in Glasgow.
A double from Kemar Roofe, sandwiching a strike from Cedric Itten, saw the hosts recover from going behind to Callum Lang’s early strike.
Manager Stephen Robinson reverted to a 3-5-2 formation to try and absorb the pressure from a Rangers side who saw a 27-game unbeaten run ended in midweek at St Mirren.
The injured Christopher Long dropped out, with Barry Maguire moving to bench. Ricki Lamie came into defence, with Robbie Crawford added to the midfield.
The Steelmen knew they would be in for an afternoon of having to defend but the urgency to do so increased tenfold with just five minutes on the clock.
O’Donnell’s long throw landed back at him on the right side with five minutes on the clock. Sweeping in an exceptional low, driven ball, Lang was on hand at the back post to steer in the ball to give the visitors the lead.
O’Hara and Watt had chances soon after but the majority of the first half was spent with Rangers in possession – but ultimately ‘Well would get in at the break a goal ahead after repelling everything which came their way.
That defensive showing continued to hold up in the second period, as Rangers worked the ball from side to side but without making penetrative passes to seriously trouble Jordan Archer in the ‘Well goal.
The resistance, however, did eventually break. With 73 minutes played, a ball into the box wasn’t cleared and Roofe got the break of the ball to hammer home the equaliser.
Nine minutes later, Rangers had the lead. Tavernier’s corner from the right sailed through the front pack of bodies to the back post, where Itten was on hand to head in.
Devante Cole, Sherwin Seedorf and Liam Polworth were introduced to try and open the game up and grab back an equaliser for Motherwell, but a further failure to clear their lines saw Roofe snatch a third deep into stoppage time.
