Motherwell vs Falkirk - prediction, team news, lineups

Motherwell volition invited Falkirk to Fir Park connected Sunday day for a matchday 2 gathering successful the Scottish Premiership. 

The hosts defeated Hibernian 2-1 connected the opening weekend, portion the visitors mislaid 2-0 to St Mirren successful their archetypal league fixture.

Match preview

Motherwell had a superb 2025-26 season, finishing 4th successful the Scottish Premiership with 61 points from 16 wins, 13 draws and lone 9 defeats successful 38 league games. 

However, the Steelmen came into the 2026-27 run nether caller manager Alfred Johansson, pursuing Jens Berthel Askou's departure to articulation Toulouse astatine the extremity of past season. 

Despite initially enduring a challenging pre-season, losing to some AGF (4-0) and Genk (4-3), Johansson has overseen a superb commencement to the caller campaign, with Motherwell unbeaten aft 4 games successful each competitions. 

The Steelmen comfortably progressed past HB Torshavn with a 5-0 aggregate triumph successful their Conference League 2nd qualifying circular tie, followed by beating Hibernian 2-1 successful their archetypal league crippled acknowledgment to Ibrahim Said's 85th-minute winner. 

Motherwell did neglect to triumph for the archetypal clip this play successful their past outing, drafting 1-1 with HJK Helsinki successful the archetypal limb of their Conference League 3rd qualifying circular tie, leaving the necktie inactive to beryllium settled successful the reverse fixture astatine Fir Park. 

Motherwell's attraction volition first, however, beryllium connected Sunday's clash with Falkirk, successful which the Steelmen volition beryllium hoping to unafraid different 3 points to proceed their flawless commencement to the league campaign. 

Falkirk likewise enjoyed a fantastic 2025-26 play - their archetypal backmost successful the Scottish Premiership since 2009-10 - finishing sixth successful the array aft picking up 49 points successful 38 games, from 14 wins, 7 draws and 17 losses. 

The Bairns did endure a hard extremity to the term, losing 4 of their last 5 matches, and that signifier has seemingly continued astatine the opening of 2026-27, with Falkirk winning lone 2 of their opening 5 games crossed each competitions. 

Falkirk won two, mislaid 1 and drew 1 - losing connected penalties - of their 4 Scottish League Cup radical games, starring to a daze elimination arsenic Ayr United snatched apical spot, followed by a 2-0 nonaccomplishment to St Mirren successful their opening fixture of the league campaign. 

John McGlynn's broadside dominated possession, with 58%, but created conscionable 0.55 expected goals (xG) to St Mirren's 1.57xG, and the Falkirk brag volition beryllium hoping for a importantly stronger showing against the Steelmen. 

Falkirk volition gully assurance from their caller grounds against Motherwell, remaining unbeaten successful their past six encounters with the Steelmen, including 4 wins successful that clip - 3 of which came during the 2025-26 season.

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Team News

Motherwell are contending with respective wounded issues, including Apostolos Stamatelopoulos, Callum Hendry, Jordan McGhee, Paul McGinn and Stephen O'Donnell. 

Tawanda Maswanhise, who finished arsenic the league's apical scorer past season, scored his archetypal extremity of the play successful the gully with HJK Helsinki, and the striker should proceed starring the enactment against Falkirk.

Meanwhile, Falkirk are dealing with conscionable 1 wounded absence, arsenic Aidan Nesbitt continues to retrieve from an ankle issue, portion they volition beryllium strengthened by the instrumentality from suspension of Brad Spencer.

After struggling to make chances against St Mirren successful their opening game, McGlynn could look to power up the onslaught against Motherwell, meaning the likes of Ethan Ross and Ben Parkinson could start.

Motherwell imaginable starting lineup:

Paulsen; Sparrow, Moorman, Girdwood-Reich, Longelo; Fadinger, Priestman; Vogt, Lowry, Charles-Cook; Maswanhise

Falkirk imaginable starting lineup:

Bain; Strain, Melniks, Henderson, Tanser; Spencer, Sibbald; Gardner, Yeats, Ross; Parkinson

We say: Motherwell 2-1 Falkirk

Motherwell person enjoyed a beardown commencement to the caller campaign, and though Falkirk person a superb caller grounds successful this fixture, the Steelmen volition beryllium expected to proceed their unbeaten commencement to the word and unafraid the 3 points.

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