The highest scoring game in SPL history but more relevantly the most amazing comeback staged by Motherwell down, 6-2 as they stun Hibs.
In fact, they could have won the game when Lukas Jutkiewic was brought down by goalkeeper Graeme Smith. But Ross Forbes missed the penalty which would have made the scores level.
As it turned out it was Jutkiewic in the 93′ minute lashing an absolute beauty past Smith at a incredibly tight angle to the right upper corner of goal. And to think Craig Brown, Motherwell’s manager was about to substitute him because of his knee injury.
Graeme Smith had some very uncanny Lukasz Fabianski moments. Check goals 4 and 5 scored by Motherwell. It undid the hat trick by striker Colin Nish, the first Hibs player to score so many in an away game in five years.
Fir Park was also the venue for the previous SPL record of the highest scoring match on August 20th, 2005 and on that occasion Motherwell lost to Aberdeen, 5-6 as they tried overcoming a 6-3 deficit in the last minutes and very nearly pulled it off.
An Arsenal connection: Anthony Stokes who scored two goals for Hibs was an Arsenal reserve in 2005 – 2007, and made his first team debut on 25 October 2005 in a Carling Cup tie against Sunderland. He was then loaned to Falkirk before joining Sunderland on a £2 million fee in 2007. He soon fell out with both Roy Keane and thereafter Steve Bruce because of his indiscipline and was loaned out to Sheffield United and Crystal Palace. In August 2009, he left for Hibs on a transfer fee of £500,000 and was reunited with his old Falkirk boss, John Hughes who had taken over the Hibs job.