GREAT Dane Brian Jensen is determined to keep his Carling Cup dream alive tonight.

The Burnley goalkeeper produced heroics in the penalty shoot-out to dump last year’s finalists Chelsea out of the competition in the fourth round.

Now he’s aiming to add Arsenal to the list of London clubs to fall victim to the Clarets this season, after Jay Rodriguez’s late goal against Fulham set up a memorable trip to Stamford Bridge three weeks ago.

And he admits he isn’t scared of Arsene Wenger’s young Gunners, who scored six against Sheffield United and three against Wigan Athletic, without conceding, to reach this stage.

“I hope for a busy evening but I don’t want six one-on-ones and be creating miracles,” he said.

“It’s just nice to be kept on my toes and do all the basic stuff like the kicking, taking the crosses.

“The worst thing for a goalkeeper is if you have absolutely nothing to do then suddenly something happens and you’re caught cold.

“You just want to tick over. I don’t want them to storm at me every two minutes. But we are a good side so hopefully we can do better than that and cause them some problems ourselves.”

The Clarets’ longest serving current player has endured a running battle for the gloves since his first season as an ever-present, following the signings of Danny Coyne and Gabor Kiraly.

But after missing out to summer capture Diego Penny in the opening game this term, the start of Burnley’s memorable Carling Cup journey, in the first round at Bury, proved to be a new beginning for Jensen too.

Ten clean sheets in 23 league and cup games - including four in his first five - has led the Danish stopper to believe he is in the form of his life, with much of the credit going to manager Owen Coyle and goalkeeping coach Phil Hughes.

“I’ve had managers who’ve had belief in me but my own performances turned into a bit of a rollercoaster ride,” he said.

“I’m not going to blame anyone apart from myself. Every single challenge that I’ve faced I’ve taken it with both hands and I’ve been working hard, and hopefully people can see that it’s paid off now.

“A lot of the players were here before the gaffer arrived but he’s just given us belief and confidence to do what we’re best at and it’s been brilliant.

“Everyone has really bought into what he’s doing, and it’s a pleasure to come in every day and play with a smile on your face and have all the great banter.

“It’s going really well at the moment and Phil Hughes has said ‘it’s all down to you because of your hard work’.

“He’s seen my rollercoaster ride and knows how I’ve been reacting and how I’ve been doing, and now that hard work is finally paying off.”

Such is the extent of Jensen’s soaring confidence, he’s even prepared to take penalties if it reaches the sudden-death stage again, as well as trying to keep them out.

“I wanted to take the sixth one last time, but they didn’t want to let me do it,” said the 33-year-old who kept out spot kicks from Chelsea’s Wayne Bridge and John Obi Mikel in the last round.

“If I had scored the sixth one and then made the save afterwards ... imagine that. I’d have been over the moon!”

But he admitted their achievements took long enough to sink in as it was.

“I think it was probably after the QPR game when people started thinking ‘Wow, we’ve actually beaten Chelsea!’”he said.

“It took a good week to realise quite what had happened.

“It’s an experience and a great achievement for everyone and, personally, it’s the biggest one for me.

“We just need to see if we can top that tonight.”