BURNLEY winger George Boyd remains convinced Burnley can defy the odds and stay in the Premier League this season.

The 29-year-old has called on his team-mates “to make history” as they seek to earn the Clarets a second consecutive season in the Premier League for the first time.

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The £3million summer signing from Hull has become an integral figure in Sean Dyche’s side this season, having started every game since that summer deadline day move.

And having seen the Clarets’ relegation rivals at close quarters, Boyd is sure that they can bridge the three point gap to safety with 10 games to go and pull of a feat that looked so unlikely 10 games into the season, when Burnley still hadn’t won a game.

But the Scotland international insists the key to picking up enough points is taking it one game at a time, starting with the visit of champions Manchester City to Turf Moor on Saturday.

“It’s one at a time, that’s all we can do,” he said.

“I firmly believe we are better than three others teams that will go down. I’ve got no doubt that we’ll stay up.

“It’s one step at a time, but it’s 10 games to survive and make history.”

The visit of reigning champions City is going to be another test during this taxing run of games against most of the league’s top seven, but Boyd believes the performances Burnley have turned in against the bigger sides can give them confidence.

“We’ve shown all season, we’ve gone to the top two and got results, and we drew with Man United and battered them at Old Trafford, so we’re full of confidence we can turn in good performances and get points,” he said.

““If you watch the games, our performances have been top drawer, it’s just the minor things...going in 1-1 at United would have been huge, and Liverpool (at home) we played well the whole game.

“You’d like to think over a season these things even themselves out. We’ll try and put another performance in first and foremost and hopefully get the points.”

Boyd has impressed this season with his fitness stats, and he is noticing that the Clarets’ remarkable energy levels are beginning to have an impact on games.

“I think since Christmas we’ve noticed,” he said of the fitness advantage.

“Even games where we’ve not quite got the three points, we’ve been on top in the last 20 minutes.

“It happened a lot last season in the Championship, and there’s not as many games this season.

“It’s that relentlessness of wave after wave of attack, even if we have to defend we have the fitness to go again on the counter.”