EVERY team goes through spells where goals are hard to come by, this is the case for Burnley at the moment and they just have to keep on working.

They can’t afford to panic and let their heads drop. Obviously they are missing Danny Ings and Sam Vokes and that is not helping matters, but the players that have been brought in are good enough to score goals.

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Against Sunderland Lukas Jutkiewicz had a couple of half chances but we need to be sticking them away now. We just need one to go in the back of the net and all will seem okay then.

Like Sean Dyche I believe they will score goals before too long, they’ve just been unlucky so far.

It is immensely difficult as a striker though when the goals aren’t going in and everybody is looking towards that end of the pitch.

The strikers aren’t playing badly, they need to remember that, it is only natural to feel the pressure when the goals haven’t been going in but the performances have been fine. They need to carry on believing in themselves, because Sean definitely believes in them.

The big thing now is to score goals to get up the table, but it isn’t easy at any level never mind in the Premier League, but the forwards just have to knuckle down and do their best. The fact that the defence is playing so well helps a bit in that way.

There’s only five games gone in the season, there is still a long, long way to go. It will be nice to find some goals in the next few games and turn the corner, but it’s very early days still.

The injuries to Ings and Vokes certainly makes it more difficult, but when they return the manager will have five strikers to choose from and there will be a lot of options – all offering something different.

With that sort of competition for places the three fit strikers, Jutkiewicz, Marvin Sordell and Ashley Barnes, will know this is a big opportunity to get themselves a regular place.

Everybody expected Ings and Vokes to be the partnership this season, but the injuries have given the others an opportunity, and it is one they will be desperate to take.

So the fact they haven’t scored goals will be concerning, but it’s been fine margins.