Marcus Edwards close to starting first game

Clarets head coach Scott Parker feels January signing Marcus Edwards is close to making his first start for this club.

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00:00He's close now, he's very close and he'll have to tread a little bit carefully.

00:04He's obviously not played a lot of minutes and I think we've tried to integrate him slowly into the team.

00:09He's had 30 minutes at Southampton, 20 the other day, another 25.

00:14Yeah, Mila Laika made a difference today.

00:18Done 1v1 on the side, fizzed it across the goal.

00:20It could have gone anywhere.

00:21It could have gone in.

00:22He's then got the penalty, which is, so yeah, I think he's getting up to speed.