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Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title

From Cristoforo Prodan


Jens Berthel Askou mored than happy to hear Motherwell fans revealing their title aspirations during a 5-0 rout of St Mirren - but worried he and his gamers would keep their focus short-term.


The produced a dominant 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 desire them to enjoy what we do, we want them to be thrilled, and after that we understand that enjoyment and happiness might, at some point, when you're in a run like this at a club of our size, that will clearly spiral into something where they must dream and are dreaming.


"That's . 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.


"Which's one football video game at a time, due to the fact that we do not play 2 or three or 4 or 5 or six at a time, we play one at a time and I believe the players have been truly proficient at just trying to bridge that space."


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


Motherwell have actually lost as soon as in 19 league games and just yielded six goals throughout that spell.


When asked if they might preserve that kind, their manager stated: "I can't anticipate the future, however what I can do is I can keep requiring the very same and more from the players and I understand they will do the same from each other.


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


"And we likewise know that in the coming time we'll play all the top teams as soon as or twice and then 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 enjoying, then undoubtedly you wish to carry out at your best level," Askou said. "It was terrific to reveal who we desire to be when he was enjoying."


In contrast, present St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson was ashamed and took duty 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 altered the system in the hope I would see what I see Monday to Friday. We put more innovative players 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 far from Motherwell - they're probably the very best group in the league. Very, excellent at what they make with an excellent supervisor. But we literally gifted them four goals.


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


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