By Paul Marshall
January 24 2003

Motherwell are on Scottish Cup duty this Saturday, we travel to Rugby Park to face Kilmarnock. With Motherwell paying for the buses to Ayrshire we should have a massive support to cheer on the side. Kilmarnock V Motherwell


Rugby Park is one of the few grounds where Motherwell fan's can be confident heading too. We've only suffered one defeat in our last seven visit's to Rugby Park including a couple of thrashings like our 4 - 1 win when we just went into Administration and our excellent 3 - 0 win at the start of this season. Theres also more good news for the fans making the trip, Kilmarnock haven't knocked us out of a cup competition since 1970 season when they beat us 1 - 0 at Fir Park in a Scottish Cup tie although they won a League Cup tie 2 - 1 at Rugby Park in 1972, Motherwell went through after beating them at Fir Park 2 - 0 in the return leg.





Faddys goal at Rugby Park earlier in the season


Terry Butcher's only doubt is Daniel Sengewald but the tall German hasn't been in the managers plan's for sometime now. Keith Lasley could start at Rugby Park, the midfielder returns from his knee injury he picked up in Novembers League Cup match at Pittodrie. James McFadden will play his last match before starting his FOUR match ban so our top goalscorer will be right up for this one.



Stats

	Motherwell wins	Draw	Kilmarnock wins
League	80	29	64
Scottish Cup	3	3	4
League Cup	5	0	2
Total	88	32	70

The Well Experience Prediction One defeat in our last seven games at Rugby Park is great form but I can't see us winning on Saturday, we'll come away with a draw if we play well, 1 - 1.