MANCHESTER City have no negative thoughts as they prepare to face Burnley on the back of a home defeat to Wolves on the opening day of the season.

City were beaten 1-0 on their return to Division One in front of the Sky cameras on Sunday.

But skipper and former Blackburn Rovers defender Andy Morrison remains upbeat, relishing the prospect of tackling Stan Ternent's Clarets in the Worthington Cup, first round, first leg at Maine Road.

"I feel that good and that positive. I can't wait for Burnley," he said.

"There is no way we are getting down about the result. Wolves had to defend with their lives at times. I thought we played well." City boss Joe Royle also felt his side hadn't deserve to lose their first game following their dramatic play-off final win over Gillingham in May.

But he conceded that the Maine Road outfit had lacked a cutting edge and admitted that Morrison had provided their biggest threat from set-pieces.

That's something Burnley will be wary of, having seen Morrison head powerfully home from a corner when City won 6-0 at Turf Moor in March.

The Clarets were also undone by a hat-trick from Shaun Goater, who had his critics at Maine Road last season but still finished as leading scorer with 17 League goals.

Goater will be partnered by former Arsenal front man Paul Dickov, whose injury-time equaliser at Wembley set up City for their victorious penalty shoot-out.

Dickov will also be keen to celebrate a new three-year contract with a goal. And he will be looking to the supply line from the flanks provided by Terry Cooke and Mark Kennedy, both recent £1 million signings from Premiership clubs, to give City the edge going into the return leg at Turf Moor in a fortnight's time. ONE TO WATCH : Left-winger Mark Kennedy, a £1million summer buy from Wimbledon, is a dangerman as he bids to revive a career that stagnated at Liverpool.

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