Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title

Jens Berthel Askou was pleased to hear Motherwell fans revealing their title aspirations during a 5-0 thrashing of St Mirren - however stressed he and his players would keep their focus brief term.


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


The going to fans sang "We're gon na win the league" as the goals rained down and the football flowed.


Askou stated: "We desire them to enjoy what we do, we want them to be thrilled, and then we know that excitement and happiness might, eventually, when you're 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 fair. We do not desire them to stop doing that. But we are not living in a dream world here. We're in truth, trying to improve and win everything we can.


"And that's one football game at a time, because we do not play 2 or three or 4 or five or six at a time, we play one at a time and I believe the players have actually been actually great at simply attempting to bridge that gap."


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


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


When asked if they might maintain that form, their manager stated: "I can't predict 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 exact same from each other.


"We have actually established and grown and reached a level of consistency and high performance that makes it really challenging for anybody who plays us to beat us.


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


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


"When you have legends like that enjoying, then undoubtedly you wish to perform at your finest level," Askou said. "It was terrific to reveal who we wish to be when he was enjoying."


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


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


Robinson added: "Let me please not take anything away from Motherwell - they're perhaps the very best team in the league. Very, great at what they make with an excellent manager. But we actually gifted them 4 objectives.


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


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