'Let everyone write us off': Vincent Kompany on the outside world doubting Burnley's survival chances

Burnley Express

Vincent Kompany is happy for the outside world to write Burnley off.  The Clarets now sit eight points adrift of safety after suffering another demoralising defeat at the weekend, this time at the hands of Crystal Palace.

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00:00 I'm not sure it's yet the right time, as I said, to reflect on the whole thing because

00:05 there's just too much at stake in the next few games.

00:08 But in general, in many, many, many occasions, our team has really shown really positive

00:16 signs for this level.

00:18 But, OK, that's...

00:22 So you mentioned the away games against the top teams and stuff, and usually you're thinking

00:26 if you do that against the top teams, if you bring the same level when you play against

00:31 the teams that are more in and around you, that will do.

00:35 But it's not just that.

00:36 So I think the bigger focus for us now is on drawing a line on the most of it in terms

00:48 of, yeah, we know we can perform, but we want to win.

00:54 We want to win.

00:55 We don't want to go down.

00:56 We don't want to accept this situation.

00:59 We want to rebel against it.

01:00 We don't care if people believe in us or think...

01:03 Because it's an interesting thing.

01:07 I think you mentioned last time it was a 5 per cent chance that we stay up.

01:10 It was Opta that mentioned it, right?

01:14 So I don't know what it is now after the Arsenal game, but I know what the public perception

01:19 will be on this stuff.

01:20 It does make me angry at all, by the way.

01:22 It's absolutely normal and logical to think this way, but if you keep that side out of...

01:28 If you keep the normal and logical in it as well, you can also say that...

01:32 I was mentioning to my players this week that I think there's 250 million people in the

01:39 world who play football.

01:40 There's about 400, 450 that play football in the Premier League.

01:45 Do you know what the odds are for us to make it into this league?

01:50 It's not going to be 5 per cent.

01:51 You know what I mean?

01:52 It's a fraction of a per cent.

01:54 Chance that we have to be in this position and me talking to you and these guys playing

01:59 in the Premier League.

02:00 So why would they have to wait for anybody else to tell them what their chances are?

02:07 They just have to believe in it themselves and they just have to make it happen like

02:10 they did it when they made a professional career out of nothing.

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