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St Johnstone are the next visitors to Fir Park in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday 12 September 2020.

The match will be broadcast live worldwide at live.motherwellfc.co.uk. Access is free for season ticket holders.

Fans in the UK and Ireland can watch for £12 through our pay-per-view service, while supporters based abroad can watch through our subscription service.

Kick-off is at 3pm BST.

Tale of the tape

Motherwell have won three of the last five encounters between the two sides.

The last match at Fir Park ended 4-0 to Motherwell, with Devante Cole, Peter Hartley, Jake Carroll and Christy Manzinga all netting.

The Saints were victorious in the last encounter between the two at McDiarmid Park in February, scoring a last-minute winner in a 2-1 success.

Form guide

Motherwell have one win from seven competitive games in 2020/21, with two draws and four defeats.

St Johnstone have two wins, one draw and three defeats from their six Premiership matches so far.

Watch live at home

If you’re a season ticket holder, head to live.motherwellfc.co.uk.

Pay-per-view is also available to Motherwell and St Johnstone supporters in the UK and Ireland for £12 at ppv.motherwellfc.co.uk.

Based outside of the UK/Ireland?

All Scottish Premiership games, home and away, are available to view on our live streaming platform to fans based abroad.

Priced at £150 for the season, or £15 per month, sign up at live.motherwellfc.co.uk today.

Want to become part of how our stadium looks for the return of supporters?

We’re commissioning a fan mural for the entrance walkway inside our John Hunter Stand.

All we asking in return for your picture being on the wall is that you make a donation to SAMH through our specially-created JustGiving page. Please only donate whatever you can afford.

Once you’ve received a receipt of your donation by email, forward it on to us at tickets@motherwellfc.co.uk, attaching to the email your picture that you’d like to appear on the mural.

It can be a picture of just you, or you and your family or friends. Whatever you choose.

The club would like to thank signage partners Avia Signs for their help with this project, ensuring every penny donated will go straight to the charity.

Planning your financial future can be daunting.

Add to that, the pressures of forging your own path in life, and simply knowing where to start can be enough to force everything to the back of your mind.

If you feel like it’s time to start taking control of your future, financial and otherwise, you can join our partners SRB Wealth Management online for a special webinar on Tuesday 6 October at 1pm.

Get your tickets here.

Their specially invited guests will share their insight and expertise on three key areas.

• Planning
• Investing
• Your future

Whether you’re looking to take that first step onto the property ladder, aiming for a particular retirement goal or simply want to understand what it is you need to be considering now to make moves toward a more secure financial future, SRB financial adviser Emily Campbell will share how proper planning can help you realise those financial goals.

Fund manager at Rowan Dartington, David Robertson, will offer his insight into investing practices that align your values with your financial objectives, putting your wealth to work for the issues you believe in with Responsible Investing.

Coach Brian Canavan will share some simple but very effective ideas and tools that you can use to ensure that you live your life your way, and to your fullest potential. ‘Life By Design’ is a framework that Brian has developed to help people to live their best life, their way.

You’ll understand the building blocks of how to shape your own future using your own unique model. Learn simple techniques to help prioritise your personal values and how knowing these makes major decisions easier and mitigates the stress in our lives.

The value of an investment with St. James’s Place or Rowan Dartington may fall as well as rise. You may get back less than you invested.

SRB Wealth Management Ltd is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James’s Place Wealth Management plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the Group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website www.sjp.co.uk/products.

It’s time to pick your Motherwell Player of the Month for August, in association with Paycare.

There are four players for you to choose from on our Facebook page.

Bevis Mugabi has made a solid impact since returning to the heart of the defence, lining up alongside Declan Gallagher in central defence and making six appearances.

Returning to first team action, Trevor Carson has also impressed between the sticks after a lengthy absence from the side.

Allan Campbell has been his usual dependable self in midfield, dictating play and finding the net against Livingston.

And summer recruit Stephen O’Donnell has also made an impact since his arrival, scoring a brilliant 30-yard effort in our UEFA Europa League win over Glentoran.

Our Scottish Premiership fixture with Aberdeen will now be played on Sunday, 20 September 2020.

The game has been pushed back by 24 hours due to both clubs’ involvement in the UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds.

Kick-off will be at 3pm BST.

KF Laci or Hapoel Beer-Sheva potentially lie in wait for us in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.

The winners of the Coleraine v Motherwell second qualifying round match will travel to Albania or Israel.

The third qualifying round tie will be played on Thursday 24 September 2020, a week after the Coleraine v Motherwell game.

Motherwell will face Coleraine in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.

The Steelmen will travel to the Northern Irish side in a one-legged tie on Thursday, 17 September 2020.

Stephen Robinson’s side overcame Glentoran to reach the second stage, while Coleraine recorded a famous win on penalties at Maribor.

The draw for the third qualifying round will be made on Tuesday afternoon.

We’ll learn our potential UEFA Europa League third qualifying round opponents on Tuesday.

Having been paired with Coleraine in the second qualifying round, the next stage will be drawn to lay out the possible path.

The winners of the tie will face one of the following:

• FK TSC Backa Topola (Serbia) or Fotbal Club FCSB (Romania)
• NK Osijek (Croatia) or FC Basel (Switzerland)
• KF Laci (Albania) or Hapoel Beer-Sheva (Israel)
• IFK Goteborg (Sweden) or FC Copenhagen (Denmark)

The draw is at 12pm. A one-legged third qualifying round match would be played on Thursday, 24 September 2020.

“Ultimately we lost the game to a better side. We tried to play but they punished us.”

Stephen Robinson reacts to the defeat to Celtic.

A dogged performance from Motherwell wasn’t enough as Celtic’s clinical edge gave them all three points.

James Forrest, Albian Ajeti and Christopher Jullien were all on target to secure the victory for Neil Lennon’s men.

Manager Stephen Robinson made one change from the starting team which advanced in the UEFA Europa League in midweek. Out from the 5-1 win over Glentoran was Callum Lang, who swapped places on the bench with Tony Watt.

In the face of constant Celtic pressure, the visitors absorbed much of it for large spells in the first half and had the better of the chances on the counter.

The first fell to the unlikely source of Liam Grimshaw. Thriving in a left wing-back role, the Englishman cut inside and sent a low shot bound for the bottom left corner from 25 yards.

Goalkeeper Barkas had to scramble to get across to keep it out, and Long was just short of capitalising on the rebound.

The Steelmen’s resilience would come on the counter attack. After a free-kick was cleared, Celtic roared up the park. With numbers over, Forrest found room facing up against Lamie on the edge of the box, before clipping a shot into the far left corner of the net.

Motherwell continued on undeterred. Watt then had a big chance to level in stoppage time after being picked out at the back post. But his effort went back across the face of goal and was nodded behind for a corner which came to nothing.

The visitors started the second half bright, getting in behind twice early on, but Celtic soon settled into their rhythm.

Chances were kept at a premium, with manager Robinson changing his shape to 4-4-2 with 20 minutes left to try and grab the equaliser.

But it would be Celtic who would get the second goal. A ball in from the left suddenly found Ajeti with too much room in the area, with the substitute powering home into the top left corner despite the last-gasp diving tackle from Grimshaw.

Celtic continued to come in waves. First, Klimala found himself one-on-one with Carson, but the goalkeeper made himself big and saved well with his feet.

Forrest then hit the bar with a dipping shot from outside the box, having cut inside off the left to fire in with his right boot.

Motherwell’s final chance fell to Grimshaw from 25 yards as the game wore to its conclusion. But his placed side-footer was straight at Barkas.

Celtic would make it three in stoppage time. Jullien found himself up the pitch to arrive at the back post and steer home the clincher.

Motherwell: Carson, O’Donnell, Gallagher, Mugabi, Lamie (White 69), Grimshaw, O’Hara, Campbell, Polworth, Watt (Lang 59), Long (Hylton 80).

Subs not used: Morrison, Maguire, Cornelius, Robinson, Seedorf, Hastie.