Motherwell put their bodies on the line to beat Hearts, says defender

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Stephen O’Donnell admits tactics went out the window as Motherwell put their bodies on the line to beat Hearts 1-0 on Saturday, despite being down to 10 men.But the defender says the Tynecastle win shows that everybody is pulling in the right direction.Callum Slattery’s 29th-minute strike – with VAR over-ruling an offside flag – proved to be the winner, even with Paul McGinn shown a second yellow card for a foul on Liam Boyce in 69 minutes.The result put Motherwell joint-top of the Premiership with Celtic, going into the international break, and O’Donnell hopes they can keep that going,He said: “It was certainly a graft and the gaffer touched on it that everybody put their body on the line, worked hard and did a job for the team.“That’s what you expect, what should be expected, and we did that.“Credit to the team, credit to the manager – it was a great result.“Hearts have very good players, a good management team.

They threw everything at us and we managed to stay resilient.“I think the tactics and stuff go out the window to an extent when you’re having to throw your body on the line, but we did great.“The manager always stays calm, he puts that onto the players, and we delivered, which is always nice.“It continues the run to 10 games, and hopefully we can build on that.”Callum Slattery ended up in a more defensive position in the second half to help out a rear-guard that was being pummelled – even if goalkeeper Liam Kelly didn’t have too much to do.O’Donnell said: “Callum has bags of quality, and was a slightly different role for him in the second half, but him and Blair Spittal are good footballers.“Good footballers can play in different positions and do it seamlessly, and I think you saw that in the work he did to