Arsenal loanee Mika Biereth played through pain barrier to rescue Motherwell

Motherwell goal hero Mika Biereth played through the pain barrier to snatch a point against St Johnstone at the death, and said he wanted to help his team-mates.

The Danish forward on loan from Arsenal arguably saved Stuart Kettlewell’s job as Well boss with a bullet header from a Theo Bair cross two minutes into stoppage time, cancelling out Bevis Mugabi’s 53rd-minute own-goal.

But Biereth says his side will fight their way out of trouble in the Premiership, because there isn’t a toxic environment like he would expect in their current run of 13 Premiership games without a win.

After scoring his sixth goal of the season, Biereth limped upstairs to talk to the waiting press at Fir Park and said: “You can’t shy away from things like this – we are under pressure as a group.

“But I can’t tell you how together we are in this changing room.

“You see players playing through injuries and we have a lot of injuries out, too.

“But everyone has stuck together and just playing for as long as we can.

“I had a knock in the 30th minute and I’m a bit bruised, but I didn’t want to leave my team-mates out there.

“They asked if I wanted to come off and I said ‘no’.

“I stayed on, because I think I have that quality to try and get us something in the game.

“Even if I can’t run at 100 per cent, even if it’s in the 90th, 95th or 98th minute, I want to stay on that pitch for as long as I can.

“For me, it’s about scoring goals and as many as I can to help the team.”

Biereth added: “We got the point in the end, but would’ve liked three.

“Everyone is out there doing everything they can as a team.

“We showed great character to come back in the 90th minute.

“We’ve done it a lot of times.

“This shows how together the group is and that we have that quality.

“It’s