Aberdeen’s three game unbeaten run was ended by Motherwell at Pittodrie and Stephen Glass cut a frustrated figure after the game.

“It is a setback. You have to kill games when you’re on top. We didn’t do that in the first half and we ended up paying the price. It’s three points we’ve left behind.

“It looked like we switched off for the goals, two of the softest goals you’re likely to see. When things go against us, we showed last week that we can react but this week we didn’t do that, we didn’t produce the levels we did in the first half, and we got what we deserved as a result.

“There’s more than one individual error that leads to the goals, it’s switch-offs, it’s not reacting right, its poor defending and it’s poor awareness. There was a lack of the desire not to get beat, pure and simple. If we do the professional things in the second half, we come out winning. We didn’t do that.

“It’s massively frustrating. When you don’t put the game to bed when you have the opportunity, you are liable to pay the price. Teams that come here to be hard to beat, you can’t give them opportunities to score a goal for free.

“The team has shown it’s got something about them in the last three games, we’ve got a good group of players, but we were poor in the second half, simple as that. We’ve had the plaudits the last couple of weeks and we have to take it on the chin today.”