SEAN Dyche insists his players believe they can win anywhere as they target an end to their away day hoodoo at Crystal Palace today.

The Clarets are two winless away games from becoming the seventh team in the Premier League to go through an entire campaign without tasting success on the road.

But the Burnley boss insists the failure to win away from Turf Moor in 17 league games so far hasn't shredded the belief in the dressing room.

Victory at Selhurst Park would edge the Clarets to the brink of safety and while Dyche doesn't care where the points come, he is adamant his side have the confidence that they can win on the road.

Asked if his side no longer believed they could win away this season, he said: "Absolutely not. They believe they can win anywhere.

"The difference between believing and actually making it happen can be so many different things. First of all, your own taking care of the business, playing well enough.

"Secondly creating and making the chances and stopping the chances, thirdly outside forces, they have a quiet day, you have a good day. Fourthly, decisions go your way. But in that order.

"First things first you take care of what you have to do. We've been so close on so many occasions. You can't believe some of the things that haven't occurred for us. On the other hand 10 wins in the Premier League at home, if you put three of them away, does it make it a better season? No. Factually it's the same points."

Dyche insists he and his players will only be judged on how many points they have gathered in total come the end of the season, and whether it is enough to keep Burnley in the Premier League for a second successive season.

Of the 36 points they have collected so far all but four have come at Turf Moor, and while Dyche isn't concerned about that balance this season he accepts survival would bring an onus to move the club a step further as well.

"The balance becomes irrelevant because the big call is come the last game, whereabouts are you in the league?," Dyche said.

"Moving forward, after one season, you might say, 'Right, we're a different animal now. We've survived the first season against all the odds, not what can we do'.

"Can we win away? Move the club forward? Go home and away winning games? Your first spell is getting it over the line, that's the challenge at the beginning of the season. It wasn't you win here, there or wherever, it was can you get enough points on the board. It's still the challenge now.

"Points on the board, I've said it all season, it's all I'm interested in. That's all I'll be judged on, that's all the club will be judged on, that's all the players will be judged on.

"Points on the board this season is what it's about - can you get enough in the Premier League?"