Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title
Jens Berthel Askou mored than happy to hear Motherwell fans expressing their title aspirations throughout a 5-0 thrashing of St Mirren - however 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 visiting fans sang "We're gon na win the league" as the goals drizzled down and the football flowed.
Askou said: "We desire them to enjoy what we do, we desire them to be excited, and after that we understand that enjoyment and joy might, eventually, when you remain 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 . We do not desire them to stop doing that. But we are not living in a dream world here. We're in reality, attempting to improve and win everything we can.
"And that's one football video game at a time, because we do not play 2 or 3 or 4 or five or 6 at a time, we play one at a time and I think the gamers have actually been truly good at just attempting to bridge that space."
Jens Berthel Askou ´ s side secured their greatest win of the season (Steve Welsh/PA)
Motherwell have lost once in 19 league video games and only yielded six goals during that spell.
When asked if they might preserve that kind, their manager said: "I can't anticipate the future, however what I can do is I can keep requiring the exact same and more from the players and I understand they will do the exact same from each other.
"We have established and grown and reached a level of consistency and high performance that makes it very hard for anybody who plays us to beat us.
"And we likewise know that in the coming time we'll play all the top groups one or two times and then we'll see where that will take us."
Well produced their greatest win of the season in front of previous St Mirren manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
"When you have legends like that viewing, then undoubtedly you wish to perform at your finest level," Askou said. "It was fantastic to reveal who we want to be when he was enjoying."
In contrast, current St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson was ashamed and took duty for the heaviest defeat of his four-year reign after attempting to match Motherwell's 4-2-3-1 formation.
"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 creative players in the team. And what I have actually seen wasn't what we have actually seen Monday to Friday."
Robinson included: "Let me please not take anything far from Motherwell - they're arguably the very best team in the league. Very, excellent at what they finish with an outstanding supervisor. But we literally talented them 4 goals.
"Would they have won the video game anyway? Yes, they would have done. They were much better than us, better than us.
"I'm embarrassed by the efficiency. I'm humiliated by the outcome. I hope the players are too."