Askou looking for Well to be more clinical in split

Motherwell may have only taken one point from five matches, but they created more than enough chances at Tynecastle to suggest they will pick up points in the split.

Emmanuel Longelo finished off a free-flowing move just after the break but he, Eli Just and Tawanda Maswanhise in particular squandered some excellent chances to take the game away from the hosts

"We have not been that clinical and effective and sharp lately," manager Jens Berthel Akous admitted. "And that is also one of the major reasons why we haven't been able to tip results our way.

"Earlier in the season, we didn't need many chances to score goals, now we need a little bit more. And we're working on that every week, and that's football.

"Sometimes you have spells like that, but I'm really positive that we created these chances in a difficult place to create chances."

However, Askou was again left frustrated by a key decision as he labelled Matthew MacDermid's VAR-assisted penalty award "very soft".

Stephen Welsh was penalised for catching Kabore on the head while trying to clear after the Hearts sub had headed the ball while on the ground.

Askou questioned what Welsh could have done while Kabore was "dribbling with his head".

"It's a shame for the game that it gets decided like that," he said. "You can argue every time there's contact that there's a foul. Then it's about the amount of contact, the speed of contact, the situation."

The Dane added: "But what I want to underline again is that I'm really, really proud of our performance.

"We took control of a very difficult game against a very good team who are really, really good at what they do, who have an atmosphere that really drives them and can get you emotionally unstable if you're not there. We dealt with that extremely well.

"Some of the play we set up in the second half, leading to our chances, also the goal, was absolutely outstanding."