Jens Berthel Askou Delighted To Hear Motherwell Fans Express Title
Jens Berthel Askou mored than happy to hear Motherwell fans revealing their title goals throughout a 5-0 thrashing of St Mirren - but worried he and his players would keep their focus brief term.
The produced a dominant display in Paisley, which moved them 10 points behind William Hill Premiership leaders Hearts with a game in hand.
The going to fans sang "We're gon na win the league" as the goals drizzled down and the football streamed.
Askou said: "We want them to enjoy what we do, we desire them to be delighted, and then we know that excitement and happiness might, at some time, when you remain 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 reasonable. We do not want them to stop doing that. But we are not living in a dream world here. We remain in reality, trying to enhance and win whatever we can.
"Which's one football video game at a time, because we don't play 2 or three or four or 5 or 6 at a time, we play one at a time and I think the players have been really great at just attempting to bridge that space."
Jens Berthel Askou ´ s side protected their biggest win of the season (Steve Welsh/PA)
Motherwell have lost once in 19 league 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, but what I can do is I can keep demanding the very same and more from the gamers and I know they will do the very same from each other.
"We have developed and grown and reached a level of consistency and high performance that makes it extremely tough for anyone who plays us to beat us.
"And we also understand that in the coming time we'll play all the top teams once 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 supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson.
"When you have legends like that seeing, then undoubtedly you desire to perform at your finest level," Askou said. "It was great to show who we wish to be when he was watching."
On the other hand, present St Mirren employer Stephen was ashamed and took responsibility 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 said. "I altered the system in the hope I would see what I see Monday to Friday. We put more imaginative 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 probably the best team in the league. Very, great at what they finish with an excellent manager. But we literally talented them four goals.
"Would they have won the game anyhow? Yes, they would have done. They were better than us, far better than us.
"I'm embarrassed by the performance. I'm humiliated by the outcome. I hope the gamers are too."