Burnley’s form has been ‘phenomenal’, says Ashley Westwood
Ashley Westwood hailed Burnleys phenomenal form after Saturdays victory at Bournemouth eased their relegation fears.The 3-1 win secured after goals from Chris Wood, Westwood and Ashley Barnes followed the latters fourth-minute own goal took them eight points clear of the bottom three.They have claimed 24 points from 14 matches since the 5-1 Boxing Day defeat by Everton, which followed a troubling few months in which they won only three times.Westwoods influence was crucial at Bournemouth when they produced one of their finest displays of the Premier League campaign.The 29-year-old told his clubs official website: The points return weve had since Christmas is phenomenal.It wasnt the start to the season we wanted. But everyone sticks together. Its a great bunch of lads and its starting to come through now.We are in good spirits. Its in our hands and thats the way we wanted it.The character to come here and do that to them just shows what a great side weve got.The character we have got here, and the training is bang-on every day, and that stands you in good stead.When we are like that, teams cant live with us. When were on it we can match anyone and thats what we need to do week-in, week-out.Discussing his first goal in three years, he added: It fell nice. I didnt really have to think and slotted it away. I was peeling off before it went in. The way I struck it I knew it was going in.Their latest defeat means that Bournemouth have won just one of their past nine fixtures and have slid to 13th.They played with little direction and confidence after being gifted the lead by Barnes own goal.Cherries manager Eddie Howe said: We will always credit the opposition, but we did not deal well with Burnleys threats and we didnt deal with them well enough.We had enough chances to score more than one goal and thats a huge frustration for us, but the biggest disappointment is that we didnt turn the screw in the second half.We werent able to build pressure and that didnt really come which is the biggest disappointment.(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
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