PAUL CRICHTON will face one of the Premiership's in-form strikeforces when he stares down the barrel at Robbie Keane and Cedric Roussel in the FA Cup fourth-round at Highfield Road on Saturday.

But the Coventry City whizz-kids, who each pierced Chelsea's star-studded defence on Tuesday night after scoring at Arsenal on Boxing Day, hold no special fears for the Burnley goalkeeper, who is yet to concede a goal in the Cup this season.

"They are a good side and seem to be doing all right. They have had a good run but we're not really bothered about them, if we can get back to the way we had been going," said Crichton, who had conceded only 13 goals in 21 League games before Burnley became over-generous over the Festive period.

"We had a bit of a slip over Christmas which we were a bit disappointed about," he admitted.

"We can play better and we can defend better as a team. We've got to make sure we've got that out of our systems.

"We had been doing ever so well but then we've lost eight goals in the last three games which has been a kick up the backside for us. We have got to get back to clean sheets and building from that.

"We've had 14 this year and that's a good base because we are always going to score goals. We've got some very good goalscorers in the team."

Nineteen-year-old Keane is one of the Premiership's rising stars, having scored nine top-flight goals since his £6 million move from Wolves just after the start of the season.

And the powerful Roussel, just two years his senior, has made an equally big impact on British football since joining the Sky Blues from Belgian club Ghent, a loan move that is set to become permanent. If they fail to fire, manager Gordon Strachan can call on Noel Whelan, while Morrocan internationals Moustapha Hadji and Youssef Chippo also provide an attacking threat.

"They've got some good players but we have got players in our team who have been there and done it, people like Paul Cook, Mitchell Thomas and Stretch (Armstrong)," insisted the unflappable Crichton, who is enjoying a run of big games after joining the Clarets last season, when the only thing on their minds was avoiding relegation.

"All the lads are looking forward to it. But where we are in the league, being up there, we look forward to every game, especially after what we went through last year," he added.

While Burnley's previously watertight defence and Crichton himself suffered a dip in form over the holiday games, over the season as a whole the goalkeeper and the back four have been major players in the Clarets' dramatic change in fortunes.

Crichton made a number of top-class saves to set up Burnley's shock win at Derby in the last round and he looking for a repeat as the Clarets bid to reach the fifth round for the first time since 1983.

"We probably played Derby at the right time and just kicked on from what we were doing. We knew we could go there and get a result," he said.

"It was great for the supporters and gave the whole town a lift but for us it was just a job and we went there to be professional and play as well as we could to try and get a win.

"It will be the same on Saturday and hopefully we will get through. It could happen twice, fingers crossed."

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