Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title

Jens Berthel Askou enjoyed to hear Motherwell fans expressing their title aspirations during a 5-0 thrashing 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 game in hand.


The going to 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 desire them to be delighted, and then we understand that excitement and joy might, at some point, when you're in a run like this at a club of our size, that will certainly spiral into something where they should dream and are dreaming.


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


"And that's one football game at a time, because we don't play 2 or 3 or four or five or six at a time, we play one at a time and I believe the players have been really proficient at simply attempting to bridge that gap."


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


Motherwell have lost once in 19 league video games and just yielded six objectives during that spell.


When asked if they could keep that kind, their manager stated: "I can't forecast the future, however 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 established and grown and reached a level of consistency and high performance that makes it very challenging for anybody who plays us to beat us.


"And we also understand that in the coming time we'll play all the leading teams as soon as or twice and then 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 viewing, then undoubtedly you wish to carry out at your best level," Askou stated. "It was fantastic to show who we wish to be when he was enjoying."


In contrast, current St Mirren manager Stephen was ashamed and took obligation for the heaviest defeat of his four-year reign after trying to match Motherwell's 4-2-3-1 development.


"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've seen Monday to Friday."


Robinson included: "Let me please not take anything away from Motherwell - they're probably the best group in the league. Very, very good at what they finish with an exceptional supervisor. But we literally talented them 4 objectives.


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


"I'm humiliated by the performance. I'm humiliated by the result. I hope the gamers are too."