Brown calls for calm

Motherwell boss Craig Brown has warned the club's supporters not to get carried away after they moved up to fifth place in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League by beating Aberdeen 3-0 at Pittodrie.

A John Sutton brace either side of a Lukas Jutkiewicz goal gave the Steelmen a deserved victory over an Aberdeen side which looked jaded following their midweek exertions in their 3-0 win over Hearts at Tynecastle.

Brown said: "The one thing I would say is that things are going for us at the moment. There will come a time when things don't go for us. We have to keep calm and keep our feet on the ground and not get carried away because we have kept four clean sheets in a row and won here. We were fortunate here."

Brown credited Aberdeen boss Mark McGhee, a former Well manager, as one of the reasons behind the win.

He explained: "I have to give Mark McGhee credit as the guys that played so well for me were Mark McGhee men. They were experienced guys that were marginalised before Archie and I came here - guys like Stephen Craigan, Steven Hammell and Keith Lasley. Mark had them all in a team that finished third in the league. It is paradoxical but I'm crediting Mark for the success we had.

"They are all great pros who speak so highly of him. The previous management was determined to go with youth. The youth were on the bench and they are good young players but they were asked to do a lot after starting the season so well. They dipped and went eight games without a win so we brought the Mark McGhee boys back in."