Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title
Jens Berthel Askou enjoyed to hear Motherwell fans revealing their title aspirations during a 5-0 thrashing of St Mirren - however worried 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 game in hand.
The visiting fans sang "We're gon na win the league" as the goals drizzled down and the football flowed.
Askou said: "We want them to enjoy what we do, we want them to be excited, and then we understand that enjoyment 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 reasonable. 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 whatever we can.
"And that's one football video game at a time, because we don't play two or three or four or five or six at a time, we play one at a time and I think the players have actually been truly good at simply attempting to bridge that gap."
Jens Berthel Askou ´ s side secured their biggest win of the season (Steve Welsh/PA)
Motherwell have lost when in 19 league video games and just yielded six goals during that spell.
When asked if they could keep that kind, their manager said: "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 very same from each other.
"We have actually developed and grown and reached a level of consistency and high efficiency that makes it very tough for anyone who plays us to beat us.
"And we also know that in the coming time we'll play all the top teams when or two times and then we'll see where that will take us."
Well produced their greatest win of the season in front of former St Mirren manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
"When you have legends like that enjoying, then undoubtedly you desire to perform at your finest level," Askou said. "It was excellent to show who we wish to be when he was seeing."
In contrast, existing St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson was embarrassed 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 altered the system in the hope I would see what I see Monday to Friday. We put more imaginative players in the group. And what I have actually seen wasn't what we've seen Monday to Friday."
added: "Let me please not take anything far from Motherwell - they're arguably the very best team in the league. Very, very great at what they make with an outstanding manager. But we literally gifted them four goals.
"Would they have won the game anyway? Yes, they would have done. They were much better than us, much better than us.
"I'm humiliated by the performance. I'm embarrassed by the outcome. I hope the gamers are too."