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Black knows all about the threat of McFadden
Motherwell assistant looks ahead to tonight's clash with St Johnstone
Kenny Black looks ahead to tonight's meeting of St Johnstone and Motherwell (Image: SNS)
Motherwell travel to St Johnstone tonight night looking to win for the first time since mid-September.
Among the ranks of the Perth side is James McFadden – with the Motherwell idol having recently joined up with Tommy Wright's men until the end of the season after leaving Fir Park in the summer.
And while assistant boss Kenny Black knows all about Faddy's quality, he was quick to stress he is not the only danger man Well will have to look out for.
He said: "The ability he has is there for everyone to see. He played for an hour on Saturday [against Partick Thistle] and showed glimpses of the form he is capable of.
"He's certainly a big threat and one that we, of course, know a lot about.
"If his name is on the teamsheet a lot of the attention – and rightly so – will be on James.
"While of course we're mindful of what he can do, we need to realise they have a number of other players we'll need to keep an eye on."
Like Motherwell, Scottish Cup-holders Saints are on a poor run of form having not won a game since they beat Motherwell 1-0 on August 30.
And although they managed a draw at Thistle last Saturday, Black wants his side to try and capitalise on any fragile confidence in their squad.
He continued: "They maybe haven't been picking up as many points as they would have liked, but we've played against Dundee and Partick ourselves in recent games who were on similar runs and ended-up losing, so it's maybe about time we started creating and converting chances and pick up the three points."
For Motherwell, their latest setback came in last Friday's 1-0 loss to Aberdeen at Pittodrie when they went behind to Jonny Hayes goal after just three minutes.
Despite rarely threatening the home goal however, assistant boss Black was pleased with his side's application.
He explained:"After losing the goal as early as we did we recovered from it.
"The determination and the effort from the players was what we were looking for but obviously we were disappointed with the result and we didn't really create enough chances to get ourselves back level.
"Confidence comes from winning games – and at the moment we're not doing that. The players are still bright enough though and are aware that we face another tough test in Perth on Friday."
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