CHIP OFF THE LOW BLOCK

Goal hero Slattery doesn't mind if sides sit in at Fir Park .. he considers it a tribute to way Well play

- BY ALISON MCCONNELL AT FIR PARK

CALLUM SLATTERY says it's a backhanded compliment that teams are turning up at Fir Park to sit in against them.

Dundee frustrated Motherwell for the bulk of the game on Saturday afternoon before Slattery's header from Elliot Watt's cross just eight minutes from time gave Well all three points.

Jens Berthel Askou's side had dominated possession without being able to find a breakthrough against a Dundee outfit who were well organised.

And Slattery has said that the fact teams are sitting in against them is indicative of the respect Motherwell's form this season has invited, as they clocked up their 10th game unbeaten and their sixth successive clean-sheet.

The match winner said: "I think it's getting harder and harder to play against teams because they're ultimately stopping the way they play to kind of counteract how we play.

"We're getting teams now coming into the game to stop us rather than play us.

"It does bring a different challenge each game now in the way teams set up.

"Definitely, it is a credit to the way we do play.

"Ultimately it's a different test each game because we don't know how the opposition will set up but it's up to us to figure it out.

"The manager's always changing everything. He has from the start of the season. I think that's his way.