WHEN Matt Penney’s long-range effort was acrobatically tipped around the Hearts goal by Craig Gordon on Sunday afternoon at Fir Park, the midfielder began to suspect it wouldn’t be Motherwell’s day. When a 35-yard thunderbolt from the same player crashed off the crossbar a few moments later, it seemed to sum up the little slices of misfortune that haunted the home side in Lanarkshire.
A first-half strike from Lawrence Shankland and a brace from Alan Forrest sealed the win for the Gorgie outfit as Robbie Neilson’s men returned to the capital with a 3-0 win under their belts but as is so often the case, the scoreline does not tell the full story.
