Motherwell rocked by 'serious' injuries, says boss Stevie Hammell

Motherwell boss Stevie Hammell admits he doesn't have problems to seek, after adding Joe Effor, Ricki Lamie and Rolando Aarons to his injury list, following today's 3-0 Fir Park defeat against Hearts.

And he says none of the trio are only going to be back any time soon, with Efford and Aarons nursing hamstring injuries, while Lamie has suffered a knee injury.

Efford started the game brightly but was forced off after 30 minutes, but replacement Aarons limped off two minutes into first-half stoppage time.

Lamie was replaced by Bevis Mugabi in 67 minutes.

With Jake Carroll already on the long-term injury list, Hammell hopes he's not adding to that this week, but says the international break has come at a good time to help his players recover.

He said: "We didn't have our problems to seek. The three stoppages that you're allowed, we had to use them for injuries, unfortunately.

"We had to be quite careful about who we put on, and when, but the injuries don't look good.

"I don't know yet [how serious the injuries are] but it's not going to be a couple of days, that's for sure.

"It's a couple of hamstrings and a knee injury, so it's not good.

"Ricki is one of them.

"With the injuries that happened today, absolutely, the break has come at the right time.

"If you had asked me before the game, no, we wanted to keep playing, we feel like we're in a good place.

"There's stuff I think is evident for everybody to see that we need to work on, to be clinical in our box, but also clinical in the opposition's box.

"But the break will come at a time where we can assess the boys that had to come off today."

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