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Burnley's Matej Vydra urges strikers to start performing for team to improve

Matej Vydra is yet to score a Premier League goal for Burnley
Image: Matej Vydra is yet to score a Premier League goal for Burnley

Matej Vydra believes he and his fellow strikers must start scoring to end Burnley's slump, with defender James Tarkowski current top scorer.

Sean Dyche's side sit bottom of the Premier League with only one point from five games, and all his forwards - Vydra, Ashley Barnes, Chris Wood and Sam Vokes - are yet to score in the top flight this season.

Vydra, who joined from Watford in the summer, admits it is down to Burnley's front-line to pull them out of trouble.

"Right now the top goalscorer is Tarky (Tarkowski), so it's not the best statistic for the strikers," he said. "But we've played only five games and now it's time to bring goals to the club."

"Especially for the strikers, when you score goals, when you have opportunities almost every game, you believe more in yourself that a goal will come, and if you score one or two then your confidence is high, you feel much better on the training pitch and during the games.

Sean Dyche
Image: Sean Dyche's strikers have yet to open their account in the league this season

"It was a hard start for us, Europa League and Premier League, it's not going well for us but after my first session here I said, 'Wow, there's good players here'.

"We show it on the training pitch and now we have to bring it to the pitch."

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Vydra's Burnley side play at home against Bournemouth this Saturday.

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