Kevin van Veen has warned Motherwell to ‘man up’ or they gained’t get wherever as a crew.
The Dutch striker was seething after watching his facet throw away a two-goal lead to attract 2-2 towards 10-man Kilmarnock on Friday night time.
Van Veen scored his eleventh purpose of the season to place the Steelmen forward, and his facet was brilliantly saved by Killie keeper Sam Walker, just for Callum Slattery to comb within the rebound.
Killie captain Alan Energy was then proven a straight purple card for surprising foul on Paul McGinn ,however bizarrely that appeared to galvanise the guests, with McGinn heading a Danny Armstrong cross into his personal internet, two minutes earlier than Liam Polworth levelled with a 25-yard rocket into the highest proper nook.
Van Veen accused his facet of lack of professionalism by not seeing the sport out, and reckons Killie regarded like that they had the additional man by the ultimate whistle.
He mentioned: “I wouldn’t say it was our greatest efficiency or a fairly efficiency, however we acquired ourselves to 2-0 and will see the sport out professionally.
“Sadly each singe time they go a person down, groups are punishing us.
“It’s unprofessional from us once more, it occurred final 12 months, it’s nonetheless occurring, and it ought to have been three factors.
“We have to choose the bones from it, be in and analyse it, but it surely’s time to man up and see video games out, in any other case we gained’t go wherever as a crew.
“We must be mature, and each time once we give them a sniff at 2-1, you possibly can really feel it coming.
“Sadly they scored with a screamer with the second purpose, and there was no approach again after that.
“We tried, we didn’t have any luck on our facet, and we should always have seen the sport out.
“We had some photographs from distance that they blocked with ease, and the sport modified.
“They regarded like profitable, they regarded like that they had a person extra on the pitch, and I can’t imagine that it ended with a draw.
“The membership, the followers, we should always have had three factors, and it was an enormous three factors for us to climb the desk.”
Van Veen says he blames himself, despite the fact that he almost put the ball behind the online twice on a disappointing night for Motherwell, and hopes others are introspective as nicely.
“I blame myself,” he mentioned, “ and I hope all the opposite 10, 11 or 12 who got here on the pitch will look within the mirror and suppose ‘what may I've performed completely different’.
“It’s very irritating, however we have to keep optimistic. There’s an extended season and hopefully we will push on and get extra factors on the board.”
Motherwell’s subsequent probability of that comes on Wednesday after they journey to face second-placed Rangers at Ibrox and van Veen is aware of it’s a tricky process.
“There are simpler video games on paper for us to play on Wednesday night time,” he mentioned.
“However on the identical time we have to play everyone within the league.
“On our recreation we may shock anybody within the league.”
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