Alexander seeks a reaction
01 Dec 2009 - 15:43:41
Burnley veteran Graham Alexander has urged his team to learn quickly from a 5-3 defeat at West Ham United.
The Clarets were five goals behind after little more than an hour's play at Upton Park and a late rally did nothing to help Owen Coyle's side improve on a single-point return from seven away games in the Premier League this season.
Alexander told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph: "We have come back from bigger things than this and we will believe next week we can get three points.
"The attitude we've got is that we can do better next week and still climb the table. We have got to take confidence from the way we reacted after half-time.
"The manager asked us to win the second half, which we did, but it was a game we were looking to win and defensively as a team we let ourselves down.
"We can look at the fact we kept going right until the 95th minute, but we can't afford to give teams so many goals' start, no matter what division we are in, especially the Premier League."