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​Dyche confident Burnley have the fighting spirit to remain in top flight

Sean Dyche believes Burnley's players have already shown their top flight credentials and are capable of preserving their Premier League status beyond this season.

Having taken 11 games to record a league victory two seasons ago, the Clarets got a win under their belts at only the second time of asking with Saturday's 2-0 victory over Liverpool at Turf Moor.

"We're differently equipped and we still need players, we're working hard on that, but it's a different group," he said of the 2014-15 team that last played in the top flight.

"We had to change the group from losing players at the beginning of last season and the team's morphed slightly differently.

"We keep doing that and trying to get a team. What everyone would deem the impossible challenge for a club like us, we want to make it possible. We said that two years ago and didn't quite get there. We want to do that again this year.

"It's obvious we're not leading the market with finance, depth of squad, but what will become apparent, and it already has, is we are willing for the challenge and we'll give every inch of ourselves to achieve what we want."

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