“If you want to be entertained, go to the cinema.” A famous quote from former Kilmarnock manager Bobby Williamson when once questioned about his team’s style of play.
It’s a sentiment Motherwell manager Jens Berthel Askou presumably doesn’t agree with.
His team are entertaining on the pitch, with the players adapting well to his philosophy and for the most part putting it into practice.
The fans are lapping it up and Askou has also been full of praise for his team. Even when “a moment of bad decision-making” has proved costly, as it did against Celtic on Sunday, he seems able to cast it aside, seeing it as a consequence of the style he wants his players to embrace.
The costly mistake at Celtic Park came when goalkeeper Calum Ward passed the ball straight to Benjamin Nygren, who accepted the kind invitation to equalise in the 69th minute.
Salt was rubbed into Motherwell wounds when Celtic snatched victory with Daizen Maeda’s injury-time header.
Afterwards the Motherwell manager calmly said such errors “come now and then”.
He has accepted that, but what about the supporters? They seem heavily invested in Askou’s revolution. The odd disappointment they can probably handle, as long as it doesn’t become a frequent eventuality.
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