Dundee United all but secured third spot in the SPL with a 3-2 win over Motherwell at Fir Park.
Daly & Conway see off Well
Dundee United all but secured third spot in the SPL with a 3-2 win over Motherwell at Fir Park.
The visitors were gifted the lead after just five minutes when goalkeeper Michael Fraser slipped before kicking the ball off Jon Daly and into the net.
John Sutton drew Motherwell level on 28 minutes when he rose highest to bullet home Tom Hateley's corner.
Dundee United restored their lead two minutes before the break when they needlessly conceded a corner and Daly made them pay by volleying home.
Craig Conway extended United's lead in the 49th minute. The winger broke down the left after Chris Humphrey slipped and ran 40 yards before cutting inside and firing a shot that went straight through Fraser and into the corner.
Motherwell were struggling to get back into the game but they had two decent chances from set-pieces as the game approached the final quarter.
Dusan Pernis blocked Giles Coke's close-range effort after Jim O'Brien's free-kick and Mark Reynolds was too high with a free header from Hateley's corner.
Motherwell then had three penalty appeals rejected by Calum Murray in quick succession, the first coming when Pernis barged into Sutton following Humphrey's cross.
Substitute Lukas Jutkiewicz and Saunders then claimed they were held by Darren Dods.
Motherwell's pressure paid off in the 81st minute when Sutton headed home after Hateley had stood up a cross.
The home side pushed forward but could not find a way through as United, who brought on Scott Robertson for his first appearance since December, moved seven points behind Celtic to keep their slim Champions League hopes alive.
