Motherwell maintained their superb home record and deepened Kilmarnock’s relegation fears as the hosts strolled to a comfortable Scottish Premiership win.<\/p>\n
Elijah Just and Tawanda Maswanhise both struck in the first half, with the second goal coming just 47 seconds after Kilmarnock midfielder Tom Lowery was sent off for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n
It was a double blow for Neil McCann’s side, who applied themselves well in a frustrating first half.<\/p>\n
They thought they had gone in front when Liam Polworth skipped round Calum Ward and tapped home, but it was chalked off for offside after a VAR review, and Tyreece John-Jules hit the bar with a powerful header.<\/p>\n
After the break, Motherwell totally dominated and went three to the good when Ibrahim Said fired past visiting goalkeeper Kelle Roos from close range.<\/p>\n
Lukas Fadinger made it four in the closing stages, finding the bottom corner after some intricate passing on the edge of the Kilmarnock box.<\/p>\n
It could have been a larger margin of victory in truth as Motherwell’s incredible form in front of their own fans continued.<\/p>\n
They are unbeaten in their past nine home matches without conceding a single goal and are within four points of Rangers and Celtic, who play Dundee and Hearts, respectively, on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Kilmarnock are without a win in 17 matches and remain in the relegation play-off spot, three points above bottom club Livingston and five adrift of St Mirren in 10th having played a game more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motherwell maintained their superb home record and deepened Kilmarnock’s relegation fears as the hosts strolled to a comfortable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-262035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}