BURNLEY boss Owen Coyle has urged his troops not to fear playing at Turf Moor.

The Clarets have won only twice there in 11 outings going into this afternoon's clash with Sheffield Wednesday.

But although Coyle has yet to celebrate a home win since taking charge last month - a run that is in stark contrast to an away record that includes three wins and a draw - he admitted, that given a choice, he would rather play at home every week.

"Regardless of whatever people say about the home form, you want to be at home all the time because we're going to start churning out wins, I've got absolutely no doubt about that, and Boxing Day would be a good time for that to start," said Coyle.

"It's two home wins all season, and obviously you'd like the return to be greater than that. Having said that, I don't want players to look at that, just to go out and play. Whether it's a nervousness or anxiety, I don't know, but when you look back and analyse the games, the chances are still being created. I would be more worried if they were coming out of the games and I thought we didn't create any opportunities.

"But that's not the case. Against Stoke, Leicester, Queens Park Rangers and Preston, we had an abundance of chances.

"Whether it's a mental thing or not, it's just getting that first win, and when we do, we'll kick on from there, absolutely."

And Coyle took great heart from the resilient nature with which his 10-man troops took a point from Ipswich at the weekend.

It wasn't just the determination they oozed when they were up against it for much of the second half, after John Spicer was sent off on the stroke of half-time, but grasping any opportunity to get forward in an effort, against the odds, to extend their winning run on the road to four games.

"When people look back they'll see we had a fantastic corner that we'd rehearsed and if that had come off then that's stuff you dream about, working on the training ground and taking it into matches," said Coyle, for whom the first-half set piece involving Robbie Blake and Wade Elliott was a highlight.

"I thought it was a fantastic move and inventive, and hopefully what we're going to be about; being clever and inventive in the final third," he continued.

"But equally I've got immense pride and pleasure in the resilience we showed in having to defend with 10 men.

"We were always a threat on the counter attack, and we'd have liked to offer more of that in the second half, but circumstances dictated that we were always going to be backs to the wall.""