Jens Berthel Askou: Good amount to learn from Motherwell cup draw

New Motherwell boss Jens Berthel Askou claimed there was a “good amount of learning ” to take from his side’s 2-2 Premier Sports Cup draw with Clyde at New Douglas Park.

In his first game in the Well technical area, the Dane watched Bully Wee striker James Hilton put the League Two side ahead after just 16 minutes with a goal from distance.

Fir Park attacker Tawanda Maswanhise scored twice to put the William Hill Premiership side ahead but Liam Scullion levelled in the 53rd minute and – with no more goals – the Steelmen took the bonus point with a 5-4 penalty shootout win.

Askou told the club’s official X account: “Yeah, you can always look at it from two perspectives and say, ‘yeah, it’s not good enough, we didn’t win – we should have won’.

“But we also knew that it could be really, really difficult and we weren’t sharp enough in the moment.

“We had a big chance at the end where we could have closed the game down.

“The second goal they get is not good enough in terms of the standards that we want and then suddenly you have a result that’s a little bit tricky and not what you want.

“But that’s football. I’m sure that this game will not define the journey we are (on) with this club.

“But it was a good learning step in terms of dealing with a little bit of frustration, irritation, that it wasn’t as fluent as we wanted to be and then how to deal with that and keep the body language positive and so in terms of that, there’s a good amount of learning in it.”