Burnley vs Manchester City, 2016 Premier League: Players to Watch

“They are under pressure to get results more than develop”.

Raffael gave City cause for concern with a superb strike midway through the first half at a lively Borussia-Park but Silva changed the complexion of the game just before the interval.

The midfielder was brought in for his first Premier League start of the season after apologising for comments from his agent Dimitri Seluk about manager Pep Guardiola.

“We have qualification in the pocket until February so now we can concentrate on the Premier League and be so satisfied”. When we analyse the six games we have played, I’m so happy. It will be nothing short of a very hard encounter for the promoted side, but they will be confident enough to know that they are capable of causing an upset.

“Always I am optimistic but now better than ever about my team and what we can do this season”, he said. We didn’t have too many days off, especially the players who played with the national team.

Jamie Smith is ESPN FC’s Burnley blogger.

“What they do, they do really well”, said Guardiola to BBC Sport.

“His teammates love him”.

“We will wait to see who we will face”. It all provides a fascinating dynamic for this fixture and surely it could pay off to take a chance on Burnley in some way at the inflated odds on offer. Neither side seemed interested in exploiting the greater space in the final half hour, however, and the match petered out as City made sure of their point.

“In terms of intensity, I think they will be better”. We are going to sleep all together here in the CFA and tomorrow (Saturday) we are going to travel to Burnley. There was not enough energy, enough fight actually. In that moment it was more hard as well because we didn’t have so much experience.

The lack of offence continues to be a concern for the Clarets.

After a dismal 4-0 defeat at West Brom on Monday due to some poor defending, Burnley will return to Turf Moor where they have been a whole different team.

“We need to pick ourselves up”.

Given Sean Dyche’s knack of setting up defensive teams, he is likely to the do the same against a ferocious looking Man City attack.

Manchester City have scored the highest tally (15) and proportion (56%) of their goals away from home in the Premier League this season.

City, like Barcelona, coveted Arsenal’s Hector Bellerin but he has just signed a new six-and-a-half-year contract to stay in north London.