Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title
Jens Berthel Askou was delighted to hear Motherwell fans revealing their title aspirations during a 5-0 rout of St Mirren - but 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 Hearts with a game in hand.
The checking out fans sang "We're gon na win the league" as the goals rained down and the football flowed.
Askou said: "We desire them to enjoy what we do, we desire them to be excited, and then we know that enjoyment and pleasure might, eventually, when you're 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 do not want them to stop doing that. But we are not living in a dream world here. We're in reality, attempting to improve and win whatever we can.
"Which's one football video game at a time, since we do not play two or three or 4 or five or 6 at a time, we play one at a time and I believe the players have actually been really proficient at simply attempting to bridge that space."
Jens Berthel Askou ´ s side secured their greatest win of the season (Steve Welsh/PA)
Motherwell have actually lost when in 19 league video games and just conceded six goals during that spell.
When asked if they could maintain that form, their supervisor stated: "I can't forecast the future, however what I can do is I can keep requiring the very same and more from the gamers and I know they will do the very same from each other.
"We have established and grown and reached a level of consistency and high performance that makes it really challenging for anyone 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 after that we'll see where that will take us."
Well produced their biggest win of the season in front of former St Mirren supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson.
"When you have legends like that seeing, then certainly you wish to perform at your finest level," Askou said. "It was excellent to show who we want to be when he was watching."
On the other hand, existing St Mirren boss Stephen Robinson was ashamed and took obligation 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 imaginative gamers 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 probably the very best group in the league. Very, really great at what they do with an exceptional manager. But we actually talented them 4 goals.
"Would they have won the game anyhow? Yes, they would have done. They were better than us, far better than us.
"I'm humiliated by the efficiency. I'm humiliated by the outcome. I hope the players are too."