Ross Tierney reckons Louis Moult's arrival will solely make striker Kevin van Veen even higher as the 2 look set to battle it out for the beginning striker tag at Fir Park this season.
Membership legend Moult returns to the membership on a season-long mortgage from Burton Albion - 5 years after a prolific spell first stint at Fir Park - seeking to choose up the place he left off, whereas van Veen has hit spectacular kind early on this time period, netting seven objectives in seven objectives.
Saturday's 0-0 draw with Dundee United got here simply too early for Moult after all of the drama of his post-deadline day signing, however the Steelmen may perhaps have carried out together with his providers as possibilities went abegging in opposition to the Tangerines.
Van veen noticed a penalty saved, then hit the crossbar earlier than a late strike was deflected vast.
However Tierney, who teed up the Dutchman fantastically for his strike that got here again off the woodwork, believes Moult and van Veen can convey out one of the best in one another.
The Irishman mentioned: "I wasn’t right here when Louis was right here earlier than however I’m certain he’ll are available and push Kev.
"Louis goes to return in and provides him competitors however we weren’t saying earlier than the sport ‘Louis has signed so that offers us an additional buzz’.
"He wasn’t on the pitch. There have been 20 gamers within the squad and he wasn’t certainly one of them. We knew we had the gamers to get the win and sadly we didn’t however I believe the efficiency was unbelievable.’
"Kev’s for seven in seven, so he’s a confirmed goalscorer himself.
"Final yr you possibly can see the objectives he scored. He scores all sorts of objectives and he's a pleasure to play with.
"You noticed on Wednesday him scoring a hat-trick however nothing appeared to go in for him on this sport.
"It was a kind of days."
The Steelmen dominated their hosts however have now gone two video games and not using a win following a 2-1 defeat at Kilmarnock from a successful place the earlier week.
And Trierney could not consider they did not stroll away with all three factors.
Tierney, whose aspect now face a visit to Ross County on Saturday, added: "On one other day we’d have come away with the three factors.
"We had numerous possibilities and I don’t understand how we didn’t win the sport.
‘It’s a constructive that we created so many possibilities and on one other day we may have had two or three objectives. We really feel prefer it’s two factors misplaced however that’s an excellent factor as we have now come away feeling that we should always have received.
"You'll be able to see the soccer that we're taking part in.
"We’ve a couple of manner of taking part in and I believe it’s much more troublesome for groups to cease us."
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