Are Motherwell ready for return to competitive action?

HB Torshavn of the Faroe Islands head to Fir Park for Thursday's Conference League second-round qualifier and, while many of the home crowd may not be up to speed on their Faroese domestic football, they may also be wondering how their own side will set up.

However, former Well midfielder Andy Halliday is full of confidence that his ex-teammates will be able to get over the line.

"I'm really looking forward to it," Halliday told the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast.

"I watched Motherwell at the weekend against Genk in their last friendly before preparations for tonight and it was an outstanding game, it really was.

"Motherwell, in terms of style, looked fairly similar to Jens Bertel Askou's Motherwell last year.

"You can certainly see Alfred Johansson putting his own spin on things though. There were a couple of tweaks within that."

Motherwell have had no time to reinvest the club record fee that they received from Swansea City for Elijah Just and have a glut of injured players unable to play their part on Thursday evening.

"I look at the line-up, I look at the bench, and it's just so easy to notice the amount of big players that Motherwell are missing at this point in time," Halliday added.

"So I don't think we'll see the best version of Motherwell tonight. How do you replace Elijah Just? How do you replace Callum Slattery? How do you replace Elliot Watt?

"But I think, if Motherwell are even close to their best, it should be more than enough."