Motherwell bounced back from their Scottish Cup exit by continuing their impressive Scottish Premiership form with a thumping defeat of St Mirren in Paisley. <\/p>\n
The visitors moved within 10 points of leaders Hearts courtesy of a comprehensive victory that punished errors from the hapless 10-man hosts.<\/p>\n
Motherwell opened the scoring after 13 minutes, Elijah Just finding a finishing touch after a raft of chances for the visitors.<\/p>\n
After successive crosses from both sides had been cleared by the St Mirren defence, the New Zealand winger cut inside and fired in a low shot that curled away from Shamal George and into the far corner of the net.<\/p>\n
The visitors didn’t let up with their energetic attack and got further reward after half an hour when Tawanda Maswanhise won and then scored a penalty. <\/p>\n
The prolific forward had taken a heavy touch when getting on the end of a Just through ball and George missed the ball but brought down the striker. Maswanhise made no mistake from the spot, calmly slotting past the St Mirren goalkeeper.<\/p>\n
Things almost got even worse for the hosts when defender Alex Gogic was shown a straight red card for a challenge on Callum Slattery, but Video Assistant Referee Nick Walsh invited match official Calum Scott to review his decision and he downgraded the punishment to a yellow.<\/p>\n
Stephen Robinson made a triple change at the break to try to turn things around, but Motherwell picked up where they left off and soon had a third when Ibrahim Said’s drive took a deflection and squirmed under George.<\/p>\n
St Mirren were reduced to 10 men when Richard King was dismissed for an off-the-ball incident with Slattery and Motherwell then scored a fourth when Emmanuel Longelo lashed in from a narrow angle.<\/p>\n
The visitors got a fifth in the 66th minute when substitute Eythor Bjorgolfsson fired in an acrobatic volley that George couldn’t stop.<\/p>\n
St Mirren’s relegation fears increase but Motherwell continue to look up after another impressive showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motherwell bounced back from their Scottish Cup exit by continuing their impressive Scottish Premiership form with a thumping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-490939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}