Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title
Jens Berthel Askou was happy to hear Motherwell fans expressing their title aspirations throughout a 5-0 thrashing of St Mirren - but stressed he and his players 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 video game in hand.
The checking out fans sang "We're gon na win the league" as the objectives rained down and the football streamed.
Askou said: "We want them to enjoy what we do, we desire them to be thrilled, and then we understand that enjoyment 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 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're in truth, attempting to enhance and win everything we can.
"Which's one football video game at a time, because we do not play 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or six at a time, we play one at a time and I think the players have been really excellent at just trying to bridge that gap."
Jens Berthel Askou ´ s side secured their greatest win of the season (Steve Welsh/PA)
Motherwell have actually lost when in 19 league games and only conceded six objectives throughout that spell.
When asked if they could maintain that form, their manager stated: "I can't forecast the future, but what I can do is I can keep requiring the exact same and more from the gamers and I know they will do the same from each other.
"We have actually established and grown and reached a level of consistency and high that makes it very tough for anyone who plays us to beat us.
"And we likewise know that in the coming time we'll play all the leading teams as soon as 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 supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson.
"When you have legends like that seeing, then clearly you desire to perform at your best level," Askou stated. "It was terrific to reveal who we desire to be when he was seeing."
On the other hand, current St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson was embarrassed and took obligation for the heaviest defeat of his four-year reign after attempting to match Motherwell's 4-2-3-1 development.
"I take total blame for it," he stated. "I altered the system in the hope I would see what I see Monday to Friday. We put more imaginative gamers in the team. And what I have actually 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 finest group in the league. Very, extremely excellent at what they make with an exceptional manager. But we actually gifted them 4 goals.
"Would they have won the video game anyhow? Yes, they would have done. They were much better than us, better than us.
"I'm embarrassed by the performance. I'm humiliated by the result. I hope the players are too."