Burnley striker Andreas Hountondji says team has the 'character' to turn fortunes around

Burnley striker Andreas Hountondji insists he and his team-mates have the character to turn the team’s fortunes around this season.

The Clarets have endured a torrid start to life back in the Championship after relegation from the Premier League.

Unlike previous recent campaigns when the club has dropped out of the top flight, the team has struggled to adapt to life back in the second tier.

They currently find themselves stuck in the relegation zone - five points adrift of safety.

Just one win - a 4-0 victory at Watford - has been registered this season, and their wretched form at home, which started in the Premier League, has continued.

They have gone more than a year without winning in front of their own fans, losing 10 and drawing 11 of 21 league games, since beating Leeds United 2-0 in October 2025.

Remarkably, the Clarets have lost 23 points from winning positions - a situation which surely reached its lowest point at the weekend when they surrendered a 4-1 lead at Cardiff City to concede four goals in 29 minutes to lose 5-4.

Hountondji, who opened the scoring on Saturday and was one of just a handful of players to emerge with any credit, believes it’s only a matter of time before things click.

He said: “First of all the team is a team of good people, like people are nice and kind to each other, so in a positive way it’s a positive environment.

“In a second way there is a lot of character, I’ll say, obviously there is no camera in the training, but people are nice in the room maybe, but in the training ground we can feel passion or character, like this intensive feeling in the training that makes people just trying to get the best of their team-mates.

”That’s a really good thing that we have in the team, because even the best players like Walks (Kyle Walker) or Jamie (Vardy), or whoever, every player that used to play at top clubs, everybody’s open to speak to everybody, there’s no ego.”