10 Reasons Why Burnley Are Unexpectedly Back In The Premier League
5. The Pressing Game
With superb energy and fitness levels the tools were there to adopt a style of play that never let any opposition team settle with the ball, though this was never a team that passed for the fun of it, or retained the ball simply to frustrate the opposition. What they did was hustle, harry and pressure other teams so that teams ended up with a greater possession ratio, but that possession was in their own half because they couldnt get out of it. Burnley wore down the opposition, forced them into frequent errors and then with the passing skills they possessed themselves were quickly into the other half creating scoring chances. This pressing game began from the front with both Vokes and Ings prodigiously covering acres of ground to pressure opposition defenders. If there was a game that showed all Burnleys finest qualities it was the home game against Wigan when promotion was assured. A very fine Wigan team was simply blown away and reduced to the merely average unable to string passes together because of the constant pressure applied to them.
