Ruthless Ronan Hale scored twice as Ross County climbed out of the Scottish Premiership relegation play-off spot with a 3-0 win at Motherwell.
The Northern Irish striker took his aim tally for the season to 12 by discovering the web both facet of half-time earlier than Connor Randall drilled house late on to wrap up a complete win for the guests.
Don Cowie’s facet transfer above Dundee into tenth place within the desk and inside two factors of Motherwell, who drop to seventh after a fourth successive league defeat.
County threatened within the opening minutes and Noah Chilvers’ nook was blasted in the direction of aim by Jonathan Tomkinson however was finally hacked away to security.
Motherwell responded with a superb likelihood of their very own. Tony Watt latched on to a excessive ball excessive and drilled an angled drive that struck the within of the publish earlier than touchdown within the grateful arms of visiting goalkeeper Jordan Amissah.
Ellery Balcombe needed to be alert when Hale tried his luck after seeing the Properly keeper stray from his line.
The house ‘keeper was being saved busy, holding agency to disclaim Kieran Phillips after which reacting effectively to maintain out Nohan Kenneh.
Nevertheless, Hale broke the impasse within the thirty second minute after getting a fortuitous break of the ball when Miller’s deal with fell proper into his path, and he hammered house from eight yards.
Motherwell tried to reply and Luke Armstrong demonstrated some wonderful shut management to deliver down Watt’s cross, although he was unable to maintain his shot down.
Within the remaining motion of the half, Chilvers burst ahead after which fed Hale to pressure one other save out of Balcombe as County threatened once more.
Motherwell’s gamers left the sector with the sound of boos ringing of their ears, and issues didn’t enhance after the interval as County scored once more within the 59th minute.
Chilvers cut up the Steelmen’s defence with an excellent throughball and Hale saved his cool to transform into the underside nook.
Motherwell lastly compelled a save from Amissah with 65 minutes on the clock as Watt acrobatically linked with Lennon Miller’s pin-point cross, and one other likelihood adopted when substitute Luke Plange compelled an excellent diving cease from the
County ‘keeper.
Nevertheless, the consequence was put past doubt within the remaining minute when Randall unleashed a low drive past Balcombe to boost additional anger from the house crowd.
What the managers mentioned…
Interim Motherwell boss Stephen Frail: “We’re hoping a new manager will be appointed early next week – the players need that bit of clarity and a new voice.
“He will inherit a bunch of boys which are gifted, devoid of a little bit of confidence, however hopefully he can try to galvanise them for what will probably be a tough sport subsequent week [aginst Hearts] at Tannadice.
“Today wasn’t good enough, it was far from good enough.
“You hear the boos from the stand and, to be honest, I would have booed the gamers and everybody concerned on the membership for a efficiency like that.”
Ross County boss Don Cowie: “I assumed it was a extremely good workforce efficiency, it is only a comply with on from a extremely good run that we’re on away from house.
“A lot was spoken about our away form, it was important that we changed that. What was also really important was that when we got our first victory, we built and added to it. I’m delighted.
“We have seven video games till the cut up. We have talked about what number of factors we will accumulate in that spell and we’ll simply deal with ourselves.”
