Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title

Jens Berthel Askou enjoyed to hear Motherwell fans expressing their title goals during a 5-0 rout of St Mirren - but stressed he and his gamers would keep their focus short term.


The produced a dominant display screen in Paisley, which moved them 10 points behind William Hill Premiership leaders Hearts with a game in hand.


The visiting fans sang "We're gon na win the league" as the objectives rained down and the football flowed.


Askou said: "We want them to enjoy what we do, we want them to be delighted, and after that we understand that enjoyment and joy might, at some point, when you remain in a run like this at a club of our size, that will obviously spiral into something where they must dream and are dreaming.


"That's fair. We don't desire them to stop doing that. But we are not living in a dream world here. We remain in truth, trying to enhance and win everything we can.


"And that's one football game at a time, because we don't play two or three or 4 or 5 or six at a time, we play one at a time and I believe the gamers have actually been really proficient at simply trying to bridge that space."


Jens Berthel Askou ´ s side secured their most significant win of the season (Steve Welsh/PA)


Motherwell have lost as soon as in 19 league video games and only conceded 6 objectives throughout that spell.


When asked if they could keep that type, their manager stated: "I can't forecast the future, but what I can do is I can keep requiring the same and more from the players and I understand they will do the very same from each other.


"We have developed and grown and reached a level of consistency and high that makes it very tough for anybody who plays us to beat us.


"And we likewise understand that in the coming time we'll play all the top teams when or twice and after that we'll see where that will take us."


Well produced their greatest win of the season in front of previous St Mirren supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson.


"When you have legends like that watching, then certainly you want to perform at your finest level," Askou stated. "It was excellent to show who we wish to be when he was enjoying."


On the other hand, current St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson was ashamed and took obligation for the heaviest defeat of his four-year reign after trying to match Motherwell's 4-2-3-1 formation.


"I take overall blame for it," he said. "I changed the system in the hope I would see what I see Monday to Friday. We put more creative players in the team. And what I've seen wasn't what we have actually seen Monday to Friday."


Robinson included: "Let me please not take anything far from Motherwell - they're probably the very best team in the league. Very, excellent at what they make with an excellent manager. But we actually talented them four goals.


"Would they have won the video game anyway? Yes, they would have done. They were better than us, much better than us.


"I'm embarrassed by the performance. I'm embarrassed by the result. I hope the players are too."