Premier League: Burnley stats encourage Sean Dyche

Sean Dyche is encouraged by the statistics of his Burnley side but admits they are under pressure after failing to score since the opening day of the season.

Dyche’s side are bottom of the Premier League following last weekend’s 4-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion and have drawn six successive blanks in all competitions.

The lack of firepower has not been helped by injuries to last year's potent strike pairing of Danny Ings and Sam Vokes but Dyche insists a clinical analysis of Burnley's output so far tells a brighter story than the bare facts of their goal drought.

We're not a zealot to stats but, as I say, we use them to guide us and if those stats weren't as strong as what they are, then we'd start questioning ourselves.

"We're only under the microscope because we haven't scored since the opening day of the season," he said. 

"I've mentioned it many times that it's my job to see through the opinion and the noise as I call it on the outside of it.

"We look at games in many different ways, objectively with the sound down so there is no emotion to it. We also debrief with the players and behind all that we have the pro zone stats to work with.

"We look at them and use them for a guide as to how the team is really operating, not the perception of it. One example of that is six games into last season, we had 80 efforts at goal and 40 on target.

"This season after six games in the Premier League we've had 72 efforts at goal and 37 on target which is a statistically higher amount.

"We're not a zealot to stats but, as I say, we use them to guide us and if those stats weren't as strong as what they are, then we'd start questioning ourselves."