Lasley says sorry to fans for Caley capitulation

KEITH LASLEY has apologised to the Motherwell supporters for Wednesday’s disastrous second-half collapse against Inverness.

The Motherwell captain knows the performance was not acceptable but believes they are more than capable of restoring form and faith when they face Ross County tomorrow.

Motherwell were taken apart by Richie Foran’s Highlanders, who romped to a 3-0 win to move up to sixth with goals from Carl Tremarco, Lonsana Doumbouya and Liam Polworth.

And Lasley admitted: “It’s hold your hands up time. It wasn’t good enough. But we’ve got another game in a couple of days and we’ve got to get ourselves right. We can’t feel sorry for ourselves. It’s on to the next one.

“I don’t know if it was anything to do with spirit. Football is such that things can change so quickly. If we win on Saturday, then the spirit or whatever it is will be back.

“When you lose games you analyse them to see what went wrong but we will see what we can do better – and I’m sure there will be plenty.”

Motherwell were booed off by their suffering supporters on Wednesday night and Lasley accepts they had every right to do so.

He said: “When you lose 3-0, it’s understandable that the crowd will not be best pleased.

“As players, it’s part of our job to try to entertain them and we never did that on Wednesday night.

“We have to handle that. We get plenty of praise when things are going well, as they have done here over the years.

“So we will take it on the chin and I’m sure the fans will be back again on Saturday to support us.

“We know individually we were not at our best. We apologise to the fans and assure them we will be working tirelessly to come up with a way to turn things round.”