KEITH LASLEY has not given up hope of leading Motherwell out at Tannadice on Friday night.

The Fir Park skip suffered a knee injury after just 10 minutes of Motherwell's 4-3 SPFL Premiership win over Partick Thistle.

Despite managing to battle on gamely for the remainder of the match, Lasley has been the subject of physiotherapy after suffering a reaction to his medial knee ligament.

The Well captain is likely to sit out training for the rest of the week as Well's medical team try to rehabilitate him for the trip to face Dundee United, but Las admits it will be touch and go.

He said: "It was one of those ones where I went into a 50/50 with Kallum Higginbotham with my foot planted and I felt the impact go right up into the knee.

"Fortunately, the medical attention I got at the time got me up and going and I guess the sheer adrenalin of what was a tremendous game of football carried me through.

"But towards the end of the game I was really beginning to feel it and afterwards it was a case of playing it very safe.

"But we have excellent physios here with John Porteous and Adam Stokes and, with a bit more attention yesterday, we seem to have things under control.

"Usually within 48 hours you know if things are not too good, so it is looking pretty hopeful. But when it comes to Friday, who knows?"

Looking back on what is a frontrunner for game of the season, Lasley admits the Jags can consider themselves unlucky not to have taken a share of the spoils from Fir Park.

The Well skipper said: "To be fair to Partick, they were very unlucky not to have got a draw.

"It can't be too often that you go away from home, score three goals and leave empty-handed.

"They played a lot of good football and I thought Higgy (Kallum Higginbotham) was outstanding.

"From our point of view, we can be happy with scoring four, but we obviously need to tighten things up at the back for Friday up at Tannadice."

Saturday's victory over Thistle keeps Well just one point behind second-placed Aberdeen.

But with Dundee United having strung together a three-game unbeaten run, and hammered Well 4-0 the last time the two sides met, Lasley is wary of the Arabs' threat.

He said: "United look to have got back on the horse and are starting to return to the kind of form they were in when we last played them in November.

"Obviously they were involved in a bit of a thriller themselves last time out by edging out Killie 3-2, so they will be buoyed by that.

"But Tannadice is a ground we have done pretty well at over the last couple of seasons and we drew 2-2 in our first game with United up there earlier in the campaign.

"So we can take some confidence from that. I just hope I will be available for selection come Friday night."