Skip to content

Burnley: 'We're still underdogs' says manager Sean Dyche

BURNLEY, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20:  Burnley Manager Sean Dyche looks on prior to the Barclays Premier League match between Burnley and Sunderland at Turf Moo
Image: Sean Dyche: His Burnley side are currently outside the Premier League's relegation zone

Sean Dyche says Burnley will remain underdogs in most of their Premier League games this season but believes they will at least "be taken more seriously" from now on.

The Clarets have spent many weeks at the bottom of the table but, after collecting 11 points from their last six games, are now out of the relegation zone.

We're still underdogs. All I'm saying is we're maybe a bit more serious underdogs than maybe people thought at first.
Sean Dyche

"I think people will probably take us a bit more seriously than they did in the first 10 games," said Dyche. "But it doesn't mean we're not underdogs.

"We're going to White Hart Lane, there's only one favourite, we're playing Liverpool, there's only one favourite, we're playing Man City, there's only one favourite.

"I'm not doing us down but there it is. If you walk into any bookies they will be the favourites. I think there was a rare game when we played Hull and we weren't the underdogs. That's one game in 16.

'Achievement'

"So there lies the truth, bookies rarely get it wrong with that sort of stuff. We're still underdogs, all I'm saying is we're maybe a bit more serious underdogs than maybe people thought at first."

On Burnley's season to date, Dyche added: "At least last season, as much as people didn't think we'd get promoted, they equally probably didn't think we were going to be in trouble.

"On this occasion that's the difference. People across the board probably think 'they've got no chance', so to be doing what we're doing after a 10-game winless streak when everyone has written you off 10 times more powerfully than they did at the beginning of the season, that is a mini-achievement in itself.

"But the achievement is yet to unfold, ask me again at the end of the season and we'll see."

Around Sky