Burnley boss Scott Parker has been talking to the media earlier than Saturday’s Premier League recreation towards at Etihad Stadium (kick-off 15:00 BST).
Listed here are the important thing strains from his information convention:
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Regardless of simply the one win and one draw from their opening 5 Premier League video games, Parker feels the facet are in a “good place” after “some actually powerful and difficult fixtures to begin this season”.
He added: “We have needed to present some resilience at instances, which has been vastly encouraging for me as a supervisor. We’ve been posed some powerful challenges and have taken some actual encouragement from them. We’ve been on the unsuitable finish of a few these leads to the final minute with two penalties, however general I am actually happy with the place we’re.”
The Clarets boss feels they’re arising towards a “colossus” of a group in Manchester Metropolis: “We perceive that. At instances we must endure, however we’ll undertake a confidence and a perception that we are able to present the most effective model of ourselves and hopefully trigger them issues.”
On the influence of Kyle Walker since he joined: “He has been large for us due to his expertise and his high quality. We have all seen his high quality in an actual brief time frame. The most important praise I pays to him is his response to the totally different atmosphere and totally different means of taking part in right here.”
He added: “When bringing him to Turf Moor, I had completely little question that he would embrace each little bit of it – and he has completed that. I’ve by no means seen frustration in him – as a substitute, I’ve seen a constructive mindset.”
On if taking part in three on the again has turn into plan A for the facet: “Honest to say it has been our principal construction this 12 months. In saying that, we’ve been fairly versatile. Generally we’ve had totally different personnel and been extra defensive, different instances we’ve been looser. However we’ve completed an excessive quantity of labor over pre-season in several variations of principal construction.”
Parker known as Metropolis boss Pep Guardiola “a genius of a coach” and mentioned no-one within the room would “argue” about him altering his group’s model towards : “Basically, all of us attempt to see what gamers have we acquired on this second and what’s working. What you see finest in that second is how you use.”
Take heed to stay commentary of Man Metropolis v Burnley on BBC Radio Lancashire (95.5FM) at 15:00 on Saturday