Motherwell: How have the best team to watch in Scotland only won one game?

Motherwell manager Askou admitted his side’s first-half performance was “fantastic” and partly blamed poor refereeing decisions for his side’s inability to take anything from the game.

Said’s opener was ruled out for a minor infringement, while the Dane was aggrieved at Scott Arfield’s winner standing after an alleged tug on Paul McGinn’s jersey.

“I’m extremely disappointed with a couple of things,” he said.

“Happy with the first half, I thought we were excellent and scored two beautiful goals.

“We should have scored another one and I don’t think I’m ever going to understand how they disallowed that goal.

“That’s one of the worst VAR decisions I’ve seen in my career so far – until it got beaten in the second half when Paul McGinn gets pulled just before he’s about to hit the ball [for Scott Arfield’s goal].”

However, that’s far from the only problem for the Fir Park side, given they’ve only picked up eight points from eight games.

Arfield’s 79th-minute winner means Motherwell have now conceded four goals in the last 15 minutes of the second half. Only Livingston (six) have conceded more in the league this season.

Even more damning for Motherwell, they have lost 12 points from winning positions in the Premiership this season, more than any other team. If they had managed to hold on to those points, they would have been top at full-time.

“We show up on Monday and then we look at what we need to do better,” Askou said.

“You move on. Right now, we all need to clear our heads a little bit, but Monday is a new week, there’s a game we need to win next week and that’s what we’ll set out to do.”