COLE IS A TRUE SHARP SHOOTER NOW
DEVANTE COLE reckons Motherwell are starting to see the best of him now he has full match sharpness.
The 25-year-old had not played for seven months until he rejoined Well last October.
Cole struck the second to make it six for the season, five of those coming since the turn of the year and the one-time Manchester City trainee admits he is getting back to his best.
He said: “I missed the first few months of the season, so it took longer than I wanted to get up to full fitness. I am feeling a lot better now.
“Fitness was the issue at the start for me and I was lacking sharpness.”
Motherwell are now seven points clear of the Premiership relegation zone but Cole insists he was never looking over his shoulder.
He said: “Personally, I was never worried about any kind of relegation battle because I am always looking ahead of me rather than behind.
“With the boys we have we shouldn’t be where we are. If we are playing well then I don’t expect us to be.
“I always thought with the quality we have here we would 100 per cent get away from any trouble.”
BENJI SIEGRIST is undaunted by the task facing the Terrors to rescue their top-six hopes.
Dundee United are four points behind St Mirren with two games before the split.
Celtic and Aberdeen head to Tannadice while Saints are off to Rangers and Hamilton.
The keeper, who shipped four on United’s last trip to Kilmarnock, said: “It’s always good to have challenges and to try to reach for them. You are chasing challenges, you don’t just walk after them. You have to go head first.
“Nothing is impossible. We could pick up points or win on Sunday, the sunshine is out and everyone is buzzing. A win at Kilmarnock would certainly have been better.
“Early in the year we’d have said a point here was good. But we’ve come so far, we’re disappointed not hanging on and getting that second goal.”
Siegrist would have greater cause for complaint if referee
David Munro hadn’t judged Kirk Broadfoot kicked the ball out of his hands before Kyle Lafferty buried what would have been a Killie winner.
Siegrist said: “He came steaming in and I felt I got to the ball first. It was a 50-50 and the right decision because I got there a fraction earlier.”