The Aberdeen Assistant Manager spoke to the media after the game:

“It was a very uncharacteristic Aberdeen performance.

“You need to put things into perspective as we’ve not had many performances like that and that was a bad day.

“Motherwell changed their system, which we didn’t anticipate so it threw us a little bit.

“Once we adapted our shape towards that we looked to impose ourselves on the game and we just never got going. I won’t make excuses and the players won’t make excuses. We should have imposed our game plan better and individual performances and as a collective it should have been better today.

“We got punished by a striker in form in Louis Moult and I thought it was a poor game, but they scored the two goals. The first goal is so disappointing in the manner we lose it. Going into half time at 1-0 we tried to get things going, but we never got anything going today, which is very unlike us.

“I didn’t think it was a great spectacle and I didn’t think Motherwell were great, but they didn’t need to be great to get the goals today, which is as I said very uncharacteristic of an Aberdeen performance, at home.

“We were looking for our players to get a wee bit more control of the game and get the ball down and pass and impose our game plan on them. It became a game that was dictated by a team that dealt with the poor conditions better.

“Other results today went the other way, which is a positive for us when the dust settles, but we look at ourselves and we worked diligently this week on how to play against Motherwell. The last game we played against them we got the better of them and beat them 1-0. We had to take reference from that, but it just never clicked today. We just never got going.

“Graeme Shinnie was always going to be a miss, but it’s an honest dressing room who never make excuses. It’s important we’ve got enough good players out there to make sure we picked up the three points. Any team would miss Graeme Shinnie, in particular his drive in the middle of the pitch, but we aren’t making any excuses and we should do better.

“For their first goal I didn’t think our line was right. Anthony (O’Connor) was never able to get to Moult when he scores his header and that’s something we work a lot in training. We pride ourselves in our organisation, particularly in defending set plays, but it wasn’t there. It’s something we will pick the bones out of and make sure that we work hard this week in preparation of next week’s game.

“We need to eradicate that and get back on the horse again and get back to winning games.”