OPINION on the consequences of Burnley’s Premier League away form seems fairly fixed.

‘If the Clarets can’t win away, then they MUST do so at home’, is the general consensus.

But Wade Elliott hasn’t felt a sense of increased pressure.

“There’s pressure on us anyway, not just at home, as we know any point is hard-earned in this division,” he admitted.

“But (pressure) is something we’ve got used to over the past year and a half. Every game towards the end of last season was a pressure game.”

Contrary to the perception that Burnley will be quaking in their Nike Mercurial boots at home to Fulham tomorrow, the man who has risen from non-league Bashley, to Bournemouth, to the top flight with Burnley over the last decade is confident they will embrace it.

“Bristol City at home was a must-win game to get into the play-offs last season, and that sort of pressure brings out the best in us,” said Elliott.

“I’m sure there’ll be another couple of sell-outs this week and the crowd will be noisy, and there will be the usual expectation, so maybe that brings out a little bit extra in us.

“We knew we weren’t going to win every week, without being defeatist.

“We weren’t going to win eight or nine on the trot.

“We have to look at our performances and recognise that if we play to our best, but Chelsea, Liverpool or Arsenal play to their best, we’ll probably get turned over. We almost have to take the results out of it, as silly as it sounds, and put in good performances week in, week out, and build momentum that way.

“If we’re good enough to do that, I think that will take us where we want to go.”

Elliott’s 31st birthday, on Monday, is sandwiched in between the visits of Roy Hodgson’s Fulham tomorrow, and Arsenal on Wednesday.

And, naturally, Elliott would love to celebrate with a another double dose of capital punishment a year on from them both being beaten at Turf Moor as Burnley blazed a trail to the Carling Cup semi-finals.

“They are two very good teams coming here. Fulham will be tough.

“They are a well established Premier League team, well organised with some top quality players so we will have to be at the top of our game to get anything out of that.

“Then we take on Arsenal under the lights, which should be a good atmosphere and will probably invoke memories of the Carling Cup game last year.

“If we can replicate that performance and that result again we will be delighted.”

Burnley’s home form of five wins, one draw and one defeat is among the most enviable in the league. But it is their severely contrasting away form that has remained the talking point following back-to-back losses at West Ham and Portsmouth.

Honesty, Elliott feels, is the best policy for turning things around on their travels.

“All of us think about the game and what we can do better, and we know we need to be a little bit more ruthless collectively at both ends of the pitch,” he said.

“We all care about what we’re doing so you can’t forget about it, sometimes it’s good when we go out and eat together to sit down and talk about the game and different aspects and get things out in the open, away from the club. And it’s good we’ve got a group of lads who can be open and honest with each other, and we move on from it.

“We can be critical of each other without it being personal.

“We want to get on and do the very best we can. We’re all moving towards the same ends.

“We’ve taken our chances at home, and I think it’s a common theme in the league that teams who get in front seem to get something from the game.

“The last couple of weeks we’ve started the better team, we were well on top at West Ham and Pompey. We then conceded at West Ham, and at Pompey we should have gone in front but didn’t.

“We seem to be a little bit more resolute at home, we’ve kept clean sheets where we haven’t been able to away.”

Elliott added: “I don’t know what the magic formula is.

“I think we know what we’re good at, we’re not superstars, we’re an honest, hard-working team, and when we’re on our game, we’d like to think we’re a decent side.

“We’ve got a habit of being on top in games and lapsing a little bit and conceding goals.

“But we enjoy the division and if we want to hang around for some time to come there are little bits we need to brush up on.

“We can’t keep playing well away from home and not taking points. We’re well aware of it, but we feel we were playing well enough that it will turn for us.

“We’re not a million miles away and hopefully we can stop talking about it soon.”

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