Scottish Cup: Motherwell ready to battle for wins this season, says striker

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Theo Bair says Motherwell are ready to treat their remaining games as a WAR and won’t take Alloa Athletic lightly in the Scottish Cup.The Wasps travel to Fir Park on Saturday in the fourth round, hoping to sting their Premiership hosts in a scenario that Bair and his team-mates are desperate to avoid.Bair said: “I’m really excited for this one and I think as a club and in our current situation, we’re treating every game as if it’s a war.“We know it’s going to be a very important game for us, so we’re not treating it any different than the next game on Saturday.“It’s important to avoid a banana skin, but we’re not going to treat it as if it’s any different, we’re not going to treat them as if they’re divisions below us.“We’re going to treat it as if they’re a tough opponent who are coming here trying to beat us, and we want to win.“I don’t think the gaffer has to drum it into us how important this game is, I think the players know as a collective that we just want to win games.“I know it would probably be like that at any club, but specifically for us, because we really want to win, so we’re focused on getting the result that we need.”Bair has five goals for the season, and is level with Blair Spittal, one below Mika Biereth, who has been withdrawn from his loan spell by Arsenal, and Bair says having that tally changes things.The Canadian striker said: “I think the hardest part is done, for a striker.

You get that cushion and then you go ‘OK, now I know I can do it, so let’s just see how far I can take it, now’.“As a striker, going into games, knowing you’ve got one or two goals, it goes from ‘I need to score’ to ‘I know I can score’ and if I don’t, then I know I can score in the next game.“It’s not like you’re stressed