⚽ Burnley Vincent Kompany’s Premier League experience can keep Clarets up
After the rampant positivity, a little circumspection. Firstly, Nathan Tella was Burnley’s top scorer last season, which leads to two immediate conclusions: 1) the gap between the Premier League and the Championship is growing all the time, because Tella had never been prolific in the top flight; 2) Burnley might really struggle for goals, because Tella’s parent club Southampton quite fancy him replicating his 2022-23 season for them.
There’s also the issue of style. The most successful promoted clubs are those who have either sacrificed possession and looked to play on the counter attack or who had quality to compete on their own terms. Last season in the Championship, Burnley had an average possession of 64.6 per cent, almost 7 per cent higher than the team third by that measure. It is reasonable to ask whether that possession-based, short passing and then quick transition football can be replicated after promotion.
Still, Kompany has earned our trust and so has this squad after taking 101 league points last season. Expect Burnley to compromise on their possession, but to look to spring quick counter attacks as soon as they win possession high up the pitch and build out from the back when they don’t. Here’s a statement that would have seemed nonsensical two years ago: Burnley are the most fascinating team in the Premier League this season, for better and worse.
But even with Michael Obafemi also making his loan deal permanent, we can’t ignore what Burnley have lost. Tella scored 17 league goals and a permanent move to Turf Moor now looks unlikely. Ian Maatsen was the best left-back in the Championship last season. Taylor Harwood-Bellis has every chance of being a senior England international central defender and, again, he remains back at his parent club Manchester City.
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