Premier League: Sean Dyche reckons Burnley strikers can deliver this season

Burnley manager Sean Dyche believes his strikers can deliver in the Premier League this season, despite a difficult start.

Michael Kightly ended 10 hours and 55 minutes without a goal in their 2-2 draw at Leicester on Saturday.

It set a club record by four minutes, the previous one dating back to 1970, before Ross Wallace pinched a point with a last-gasp free kick.

But Dyche insists he has not been putting demands on his striker, preferring to let them build up some confidence.

He (Jutkiewicz) is doing well. I just said to him, try and believe a little bit more. He's had chances and it'll come.

Dyche said: "The question marks have been there for obvious reasons. We believe as a group we can operate at this level, certainly compete, and we kind of have done, barring last Sunday.

"Goals have been hard to come by, that's for sure, and that goal acted as a release, and then we go and get a second, and they feel a bit more relaxed about it. They don't get any pressure from me by the way, none of them.

"Brian Clough said scoring is the hardest thing in the world. He actually said it to Teddy Sheringham, before reminding him that he'd managed it 251 times in 274 games, but that was a typical Brian Clough moment.

"I know that; I don't put any pressure on our strikers. They've got the freedom to go and score goals and I believe they will come for our strikers."

Lukas Jutkiewicz set up Kightly's strike, and although the former has yet to score since his £1.5m summer move from Middlesbrough, Dyche is pleased with his efforts.

"He's doing well. I just said to him, try and believe a little bit more," Dyche said.

"He's had chances and it'll come but he's another one, a young man learning his trade at a higher level, and it is a higher level, a tough level, make no mistakes. But he's going about his business in the right manner."