DAVID Jones said the Clarets won’t travel to the Emirates Stadium as tourists tomorrow, and has backed his team-mates to rise to the occasion.
Sean Dyche’s side head to the capital still seeking a first Premier League win of the season at the 10th attempt.
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With Burnley rooted to the foot of the table, and coming off the back of successive 3-1 home defeats to West Ham and Everton, they are huge underdogs against Arsenal.
But Jones said the club are determined to pick up points on the road this season.
“We don’t want to go to places to give it a go, put in a performance, but leave with nothing,” he said.
“We want to be picking up points and surviving in this league.
“We’ve got a chance to rise to the occasion next week and get the result we want.
“We’ll take some positives out of the Everton game to Arsenal.
“It’s going to be difficult but we’ve got to go there with belief and try and get a victory. We need to get a result.
“We worked really hard last year to get into this position, to be playing against Premier League players, and next week, like every week, is going to be a tough challenge.”
Danny Ings broke his Premier League scoring duck in the defeat to Everton at Turf Moor, and Jones believes the 22-year-old has the talent and the belief to improve on that.
"He's a striker and he'll want to score goals,” said Jones. “He took his goal really well so we're very pleased for him. He's got great ability, he's still young, he's still learning and he's going to be a top player.”
Having been the better side for large parts of the double header at Turf Moor against West Ham and Everton, the Clarets were unfortunate to come away with no points, but Jones thinks they need to be more ‘ruthless’ if they are to start winning games.
“In quite a few performances this season we've played well but it's not been good enough,” he said. “You get punished against top players as we witnessed on Sunday. They'll punish you with half chances, or just one chance where they'll put it away. We've got to learn to be just as ruthless.”
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