Roker report score predictions: Burnley Vs SAFC

The lads exited the FA cup in the 3rd round against Stoke in our last game, which many feel is a blessing for sure.

A couple of errors were punished by The Potters, which meant despite a well created and very well taken goal for Milan Aleksic, we went out in extra time and lost yet another player in Aji Alese to a serious injury.

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Tonight we visit Burnley with a chance to leap frog them if we win. A win at their place at a stage like this would not only be a great boost for our promotion hopes but it would arguably also send a very clear message to the present top four company we are keeping – we are part of the automatics mix, and mean business.

Can we close the gap? This is what our writers reckon is on the cards tonight…

It’s the Roy Race storyline and sometimes football just works like that.

Burnley barely concede at home – hardly score many either – but they grind results out.

I don’t think this will be an end to end game, but a moment of quality could be the difference, and I’m hoping it’s written in the stars that it’s our new signing that provides it.

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The lads have a huge challenge this evening, and with one of the best defences facing us we will do well to get anything from the game.

Given how few they score too, however, this has 0-0 written all over it.

I’d love to be wrong, and a win would be massive, but a point is decent after we beat these at home.

Prove me a mug lads, win this with beautiful footy from our wonderful team. Happy to slip down this table and climb the important one.

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Back to league action and a barnstormer to get us back into it. 4th vs 2nd in a huge promotion matchup, and we have to be confident after comprehensively sweeping Burnley aside in our last meeting.

A win would send us second in the league and joint top with Leeds at least for 24 hours, with us being the first Championship fixture of the weekend. It feels like a great time to step from recent strong results and keep pushing forwards.

Burnley have found goals hard to come by, evidenced by them being the lowest scorers in the top four. James Trafford has been their saving grace, but his ratios cannot last all seasons and we should be the ones to break it.

I suspect Burnley will try to play conservatively, and hope to coax a mistake out us which have been creeping in at the back of late. We need to remain firm and take our chances when they inevitably arrive.

There will be hype around the potential debut of Enzo Le Fée naturally after his loan signing appearing to be such a coup for this level, and a signal intent from the board. Abdul Samed may also make his league bow, after some mixed work at the weekend, and also Ahmed Abdullahi is apparently available, which offers one more excitement.

A cool performance from us should have us leaving with three points. Burnley may be sitting in second, but I have this feeling that they are there for the taking and our typically dynamic frontline will lead the way.

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