Burnley vs Leicester City: Foxes must focus to keep run going, says Nigel Pearson
Foxes boss 'delighted' with recent form, but wary of overoptimism
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Your support makes all the difference.Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson has stressed there is still much work to be done before the Foxes can be satisfied with their season.
The East Midlands club have won their last three Premier League fixtures - against West Ham, West Bromwich Albion and Swansea - but Pearson has called for calm ahead of the trip to Burnley.
Leicester can climb out of the bottom three for the first time since November 17th with a victory over Sean Dyche's men at Turf Moor.
Pearson said: "Every encounter we've had with Burnley have been very close affairs so we’ve got respect for them.
"I think they have a very clear identity. In most of the games they’ve played this season, in a way similar to us, they've very much been in the match.
"We’ll have to deal with what they’ve got to offer but we have got players who are in very decent form. We’ve got to make sure our own performance is hitting the sort of standards which we’ve found of late."
The 2-0 win over Swansea last weekend, which gave them three consecutive top flight victories for the first time since 2000, meant that Burnley replaced the Foxes at the foot of the table.
"It’s not something we’ve really spent too much time talking about," insisted Pearson.
"People might say it’s buoyant around the place but my perspective is that we’ve worked very hard all season. We’re still in the bottom three so I’m not too concerned about it.
"We’ve given ourselves a better chance than we had three weeks ago. The majority of the games we have left will have a direct bearing over us and the sides around us."
When asked how tough he has found his first season of Premier League management, the former Southampton and Hull City boss was keen to speak about his team's work ethic instead.
"We’ve found it tough this season, there is no doubt about that, but we intend to keep the work ethic and level of performance which we’ve had for the vast majority of the season.
"If we can keep it in our own hands, going into the final week of the season, I think we would have made a really good fist of what has been a difficult season.
"The bottom line is that I want to be sitting here talking about our own performances, rather than looking elsewhere."
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