Manager in spotlight: Michael Wimmer

Having won just once in 11 Premiership outings, Motherwell were drifting the wrong way in the table, but suddenly the Fir Park side are back in the top six and looking to win three successive league games for the first time since September 2023.

Michael Wimmer lost his opening game at Tannadice after just three training sessions with the squad he inherited from Stuart Kettlewell.

Dundee were beaten at Fir Park and then the Steelmen stunned Rangers, with Barry Ferguson bemoaning the fact the visitors had "run over the top" of his side in a high-energy first-half showing at Ibrox.

Since then, Lennon Miller has been called up by Scotland and fellow teenager Kai Andrews, on loan from Coventry City, is in the Wales squad.

Wimmer had his players pressing like demons against Rangers and St Mirren, just three points behind their hosts, can expect more of the same intensity on Saturday.

However, there was more to their approach at Ibrox, with Callum Slattery, Tom Sparrow and Miller impressive in possession and defenders making a whopping 52 clearances.

Motherwell have won both of their previous encounters with the men from Paisley this season, last doing three in a row in April 2015. Can Wimmer keep the good times rolling?

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