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Motherwell boss ‘well down the road’ as he tries to sign strikers
Stuart Kettlewell is seeking reinforcements after selling Theo Bair to Auxerre
Motherwell boss Stuart Kettlewell says he’s “well down the road” towards bringing in at least one striker, as he eyes top spot in Premier Sports Cup Group G.
Kettlewell lost top striker Theo Bair to AJ Auxerre in a £1.6m deal lsat week, but says Filip Stuperavic can add goals to his team after his first goal for the club clinched a 3-1 win at Clyde this afternoon – and it was a wonder-strike.
Stuperavic struck in 87 minutes to add gloss on a win, after Lennon Miller had struck a penalty shortly after Clyde captain Lee Hamilton had cancelled out Moses Ebiye’s early opener.
Kettlewell hopes to have players in soon, and said: “We’re well down the road in trying to make something happen.
“I would love to try and get another couple of players at the top end of the pitch, but sometimes my want and the actual realism of it can be difficult, but I can assure you that we’re really far down the road when it comes to that striker position.
“I would like to try and bring a slightly different dimension to the front end of the pitch as well, which we’re working away on.”
On Stuperavic, Kettlewell said: “We’ve been speaking to Filip since he has come in, because we think he’s trying to impress us, and we know he’s a good player. Every time he gets into that final third it’s like he’s trying to strip the paint off the ball.
Kettlewell was pleased with the win which keeps Motherwell top of Group G by two points, but Partick Thistle have a game in hand at home to Clyde on Tuesday.
But he said: “It had a feel of Tuesday night, but it was different. We dominated the ball on Tuesday, while Clyde were forceful and tried to get up in our face, and credit to them.
“But we created a hatful of chances and the fine margins are that one of these games becomes a banana skin, and the difference is your finishing sometimes.
“If you’ve created as many chances as we have, and been wasteful with it, then the chances are it’s going to start to become a wee bit nervy.
“In stages we were OK, but if we convert our chances it doesn’t ever get to 1-1 and we’re starting to think about changes to get ourselves back ahead.
“Fortunately that comes through a penalty, but even when we get that, there’s a hatful of chances that we’re very wasteful for.”
