'Conscious': Joe Worrall makes honest admission about Burnley's relegation fight
Joe Worrall is well aware that Burnley are rapidly running out of time in their bid to pull off the great escape.
While the Clarets have reduced the gap from 11 points to eight in recent weeks, Scott Parker’s side now have just 11 games to overhaul that gap.
While Worrall is confident Burnley are heading in the right direction, he’s conscious that time is very much against them.
“I thought we were good [at Chelsea],” he told the club’s YouTube channel. “It’s a shame we let the goal in early on and at that point you’re thinking it’s going to be another tough day at the office.
“But again, we showed bags of character and to a man, I thought we were the better team.
“It’s frustrating how it’s just not crossing the line for us at times. We were knocking on the door throughout the game while Martin [Dubravka] hasn’t really had a save to make.
“But still, it takes for them to have a man sent off for us to really start getting on the ball and playing the stuff we know we can.
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“But I thought the way we set up was excellent, trying to avoid them cutting through the middle of us and sending them around the outside - which made them a bit bamboozled in terms of how they were going to create.
“Flem [Zian Flemming] pops up and scores a great header from the set piece and [James] Ward-Prowse puts it on a sixpence for him, which is his trademark and we’re very thankful for his addition, coming in and helping us.
“We are getting there. We’re just conscious in the back of our minds that there aren’t many games left to rectify the situation we’re in.
“But if you go off the back of Palace away and Chelsea away and you tell us we’re going to get four points, you’d snap your hands off wouldn’t you?
“The way we’re playing is testament to the work we’re doing behind the scenes. I know it might seem frustrating at times and I feel for the fans, because they expect more. But at the same time, I do want to reiterate we are pushing and we are trying to do things the right way.
“The last two results in the league have shown that.”
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