Burnley midfielder Johann Gudmundsson has no problem digging in against Arsenal today.

The Iceland international was condemned by Cristiano Ronaldo for having a 'small mentality' after the underdogs defended valiantly to pull off a 1-1 draw with Portugal at last year's European Championship.

"Ronaldo was angry he knew he we'd played well. We were unbelievable defensively, what was he expecting? That we would come out guns blazing trying to play football," remarks the midfielder, who then helped his country beat England 2-1 later in the tournament.

"You have to sit back against the bigger teams sometimes and it's the same against Arsenal. Arsenal are unbelievable at keeping the ball, and we have to try and frustrate them and mostly hit them on the counter attack.

"Normally that is what you have to do as a lesser team. You just have to find a way to win games, for me it doesn't matter if it's ugly or not, as long as you get three points everybody is happy.

"It has to take the right characters to do that. We know some players will think they are bigger than having to do the defensive work but there are only maybe three or four players in the world who can get away with not doing the defensive work.

"It's tough sometimes when you don't touch the ball for a long time, but if you get the three points at the end you don't care."