SCOTT McDONALD once claimed he didn't want to be known as a two-hit wonder.

The Australian has been no stranger around these parts for well over a decade now, stretching all the way back to 2015 when his dramatic late double cost Celtic the league title.

In the dying seconds of the last game of the season at Fir Park, the Motherwell forward struck twice with an overhead kick and a chip to hand the league to Rangers.

It's a moment the now former Hoops man is reluctant to talk about, but the moment to draw comparisons to 'Helicopter Sunday' came once again on Friday night.

In Motherwell's 3-1 defeat to Aberdeen, McDonald briefly brought the home side level with an audacious first-touch volley that was reminiscent of the first of his two strikes that sunk Celtic 11 years ago.

“We have to go back to that won didn’t we," he laughed. "The difference is I chested that one!

“Instinctively you know where you are and it’s a great goal. I turned round just to see it go in the net so I’m delighted with it.

“I’m just disappointed. That game was there for the taking. Aberdeen did well but they’ve had a shaky patch. You’re thinking being at home if you get the equaliser you could go on to win."

While those two strikes back in 2005 will live long in the memory - for good or bad depending on your persuasion - they are far from his most defining goals over a long career.

As impressive as they were, along with Friday night's effort, the former Australia internationalist revealed they don't top his goal chart when it comes to smash hits.

When asked about Friday's effort, he said: “There’s not a lot else I can do with it!

“I can’t bring it down because there’s too many bodies in around me. The way the conditions were you were always going to get smothered out, it was short of me as well.

“It’s just instinctive. As strikers do, you buy a ticket and sometimes you win.

"I’ve probably scored a better goal in terms of actual classiness and thinking through what I was going to do.

“My goal against Man United in the Champions League [ a 1-1 Parkhead draw in November 2009] is probably my best ever goal.

"I brought it down in a tight area and dinked it over Ben Foster. They were the European Champions so I don’t think you can beat that."

He also scored the winner against AC Milan, but given he and his Motherwell team-mates were still reeling after the disappointment of losing to Aberdeen, we'll let him off.

The main talking points of that game came in the form of penalty awards. Firstly Adam Rooney's controversial tumble to earn the visitors a spot kick to go 2-1 up before Keith Lasley was brought down at the other end by Mark Reynolds only for Louis Moult to miss.

It means Motherwell now travel north to face Inverness Caley Thistle in the Ladbrokes Premiership tomorrow with a point to prove.

“We got a penalty which isn’t an a penalty. That’s my opinion from where I was. For me they shouldn’t have had one, we should have had two or three fouls before that," said McDonald.

“Personally I think the referee had a poor game but it is what it is. We had the chance to equalise, we didn’t take it so we have to look at ourselves.

“Was our second half performance good enough to go and get something? We hit the bar but they had two or three clear chances from memory.

“We could have done a lot better."