Casey keen to make Fir Park a 'fortress'

Defender Dan Casey wants to make Fir Park a fortress as Motherwell look to improve their home form.

Stuart Kettlewell's men scored a late goal to return to winning ways at St Mirren last weekend but have struggled in Lanarkshire lately, losing three of their past four home outings.

Dundee United are the visitors to Fir Park on Saturday and Casey told club media: "We want to make this the fortress for other teams to come here and have a very hard game.

"We started off the season quite well here, obviously we had a bad result last week to Hibs, but hopefully get back on the winning train here and win as many points as we can at home and see where that takes us come the end of the year.

"To get a win and clean sheet at the weekend was very important. We were very disappointed in the games we did lose."

Casey isn't interested in any talk of Motherwell's impressive league position of fifth at this stage in the season and is solely focused on beating United.

He added: "I think we've had two great games with them this year already. Hopefully we can get a result and look forward to the Christmas period.

"I don't think anyone's looking at the league table, it changes quickly in this league, especially with the busy schedule coming up.

"If we look too far ahead we'll get caught up with ourselves, so I think focusing on the next game, we'll go from there and just see how things go."