Nick Blackman

By grabar
November 10 2010

A first half hat trick from Nick Blackman set up Motherwell's biggest win of the season as they saw off St. Johnstone 4-0 at Fir Park tonight.

Saints actually started the game brightly but it was Blackman who opened the scoring in 12 minutes, Jamie Murphy was released by Tom Hateley and his cut back from the bye line set up a tap in for Blackman.

The second on 24 minutes was set up by the pace of Chris Humphrey and this time it took two attempts for Blackman to steer the ball past Enckelman.

The third came in first half stoppage time, a Hammell free kick was headed on by Craigan into the path of Blackman. He was denied firstly by Enckelman before reacting to prod the ball over the line.

The game was effectively over at this stage and Motherwell controlled the second half before sealing the game with a Sutton strike from fifteen yards with five minutes left.

The game was an professional performance by Motherwell with the front four looking dangerous throughout. In midfield there was also an excellent performance from Marc Fitzpatrick who snuffed out the threat of the influential Jody Morris.

There was also another change at Fir Park tonight, with Craig Brown switching the dug outs. He revealed after the game this was to get closer to the linesman, something he learned from Neil Warnock during his time at Preston where he also took a similar step.

Hopefully his influence will see more emphatic wins like this at home….

Well hammer Saints at home

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