Vincent Kompany staying calm despite tough start to season

  • last year
Burnley boss Vincent Kompany is staying calm despite Burnley currently being in the relegation places of the Premier League. The Clarets boss expected a tough start when he saw the fixture list in June.
Transcript
00:00 Every game, you don't know the order of when your points will come.
00:05 They might come in a game you don't expect them to and they might not come in the games you expect them to come.
00:09 So I've been, I think, long enough in this league to know that you take nothing for granted and every game you try and get an opportunity.
00:18 I would say, though, is, and I told you I'm a rational mind,
00:23 and I looked at a calendar at the beginning and six out of the eight first games we've got in the schedule.
00:29 So until this international break, we're against probably the so-called big eight in terms of budgets and squads and everything they've assembled.
00:38 Not many teams have taken points off them anyway, you know.
00:42 But that means that at some point the other teams arrive as well.
00:46 So staying calm is a big part for me of any kind of period we're going to go into before the international break.
00:54 And just making sure that the performance of United, the result against Fores,
00:59 that these things are things we can continue and see even in the next three games, despite the level of opposition,
01:05 because then you're bound to have this again when you play the teams that are nearer your level probably.

Recommended