MICHAEL Kightly says Burnley will ‘never give up’ as they continue to look for a first Premier League win of the season to kick-start their safety bid.

The Clarets have taken just four points from their first nine league games, and after QPR’s victory over Aston Villa on Monday night they are now propping up the table.

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The search for a first win doesn’t get any easier either, as the Clarets travel to Arsenal this weekend on the back of the 3-1 defeat at Turf Moor to Everton on Sunday.

Kightly, who has started the last four games due to Dean Marney’s injury, said he and his team-mates will learn from their Premier League experience as the season goes on.

“I think we will learn from it,” he said. “We’ve got learn from it quickly before we’re too far away, we all know we need a win and we need one soon but we’ll never give up and we’ll keep plugging away.

“It’s going to be tough, but we’ve got to move on, there’s no point being down, we’ve got to move on to the next one and try and pick up some points.”

Kightly is one of Burnley’s most experienced players in terms of previous Premier League experience, having played 53 times for Wolves and Stoke.

His first games came for Wolves in the 2009/10 season, and most recently he made 22 appearances for Stoke City in the 2012/13 campaign, but he doesn’t think the standard in the league has changed much during that time.

“It’s the same to be honest,” he said. “There are a lot of good players and those fine margins are very fine, but the good teams seem to get the better of you on those fine margins and that bit of luck.

“It’s very unforgiving, it’s those fine margins we’re just not getting the rub of the green with it at the minute.

“On another day Everton’s second one doesn’t drop to Lukaku after Wardy’s block and we can go in at 1-1 and have something to hold on to, but it just seems every time we do well in a game we then get punished, and that’s the difference between the Premier League and the Championship.”

Kightly was pleased with the performance of the Clarets on Sunday, but he believes they have to find a way to improve on encouraging displays.

“We’re just so close to getting something but we’re not getting that luck at the moment,” he said, “we keep giving a good account of ourselves but at the end of the day it’s not good enough, but we’ve got to try and keep positive there’s no other way to get through it really.”

Despite being winless with almost a quarter of the season gone the winger still doesn’t feel that his side are playing under pressure, and that will certainly be the case when they travel to the Emirates Stadium on Saturday.

“I think the pressure is off us in every game,” he added, “I think everyone expects us to not win so I don’t feel like we felt any pressure on Sunday or any pressure last week.

“We’ll go there and hopefully give a good account of ourselves and hopefully get a little bit of luck and get a result.”