Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title

Jens Berthel Askou mored than happy to hear Motherwell fans expressing their title aspirations throughout a 5-0 rout of St Mirren - but stressed he and his players 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 video game in hand.


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


Askou stated: "We desire them to enjoy what we do, we desire them to be delighted, and after that we understand that excitement and delight might, at some time, when you remain in a run like this at a club of our size, that will certainly spiral into something where they ought to dream and are dreaming.


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


"And that's one football video game at a time, because we don't play 2 or three or four or 5 or 6 at a time, we play one at a time and I believe the players have actually been truly proficient at just trying to bridge that gap."


Jens Berthel Askou ´ s side protected their biggest win of the season (Steve Welsh/PA)


Motherwell have lost when in 19 league games and only yielded 6 goals throughout that spell.


When asked if they might preserve that form, their manager said: "I can't forecast the future, but what I can do is I can keep requiring the same and more from the gamers 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 performance that makes it very challenging for anyone who plays us to beat us.


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


Well produced their most significant win of the season in front of former St Mirren manager Sir Alex Ferguson.


"When you have legends like that enjoying, then clearly you wish to carry out at your finest level," Askou stated. "It was fantastic to reveal who we want to be when he was viewing."


In contrast, current St Mirren employer Stephen Robinson was ashamed and took duty for the heaviest defeat of his four-year reign after attempting to match Motherwell's 4-2-3-1 formation.


"I take total blame for it," he said. "I altered the system in the hope I would see what I see Monday to Friday. We put more innovative gamers in the group. And what I have actually seen wasn't what we have actually seen Monday to Friday."


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


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


"I'm embarrassed by the efficiency. I'm humiliated by the outcome. I hope the players are too."