Sean Dyche is not a fan of treating ‘every game like a cup final’ as the Premier League season nears its climax, choosing not to echo Mikel Arteta’s sentiments about the rest of Arsenal’s campaign.
The Gunners and the Clarets both have plenty to fight for in the remaining games of the season, although at opposite ends of the Premier League table.
Arsenal are battling for fourth spot, and are in a great position to achieve that, while Burnley are trying to survive the drop, although they are not in such a great spot in their own race.
Arteta’s side have 10 matches left to play to grab a place and the Spaniard said: ‘Every game for us is a final.’
Dyche is not a fan of the cliche and does not want his Burnley side to treat their remaining 11 games much differently from their previous 27, just focussing on getting details in their game plan right.
‘I wasn’t aware that Mikel Arteta gave them [] the “cup final” mentality,’ said Dyche. ‘My view is probably a bit more level; because if you say we’ve got 11 cup finals, do you know how difficult it is to win one?
‘We’ll mainly concentrate on playing the games and going hard in each one of them, that would be my personal opinion.
‘I’m definitely not questioning Mikel, but my opinion of my team is to keep going hard, keep working hard, keep doing the right things, and add in the detail. That’s what I’ll be focussing on.’
Burnley are four points from safety with 11 games to play and are coming off three straight defeats, failing to score a goal in the losses to Leicester, Chelsea and Brentford.
After the international break they host Manchester City, which may well not improve their run of form, but then face Everton and Norwich in back-to-back games which will be huge in their survival scrap.
Arsenal are three points ahead of Tottenham in fifth, with a game in hand on Spurs, so they are well placed at the moment.
Arteta’s men return from the international break with a trip to Crystal Palace on 4 April.
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