Source: Team_Talk
Solid Clarets delight boss Laws
oss Brian Laws declared Brian Jensen's fourth consecutive clean sheet as the most pleasing aspect of Burnley's 4-0 rout of Hull at Turf Moor.[LNB] Chris Iwelumo and Chris Eagles both scored twice on Tuesday night as the Clarets claimed their biggest win since the final day of their promotion season in 2009.[LNB]Laws, celebrating his 700th league game as a manager, said: "It's so pleasing to have kept four clean sheets on the bounce and we have a base to work from. You always know you have goals in us and the first goal is vital in the Championship.[LNB]"I think we've played better in our last few games but didn't get the rewards. We should have perhaps had another four points under our belts.[LNB]"But we're going in the right direction.[LNB]"As I said last season, we were shifting so many goals. Over the two seasons we've conceded over 100 goals, we've had to tighten that up and the back line has been superb.[LNB]"But they're only as good as what is in front of them and the whole team is working hard off the ball."[LNB]The Clarets boss chose to highlight the contributions of full-backs Tyrone Mears and Danny Fox who caused Hull problems all night when bombing forward.[LNB]"Credit to the players, they continued to pass the ball around well and have been creative and it was a thoroughly good win against a good side," he added.[LNB]"Both full-backs were outstanding and I know both the Chrises will take the credit, but if you look at the work ethic both the full-backs put in today, they were outstanding and both had a hand in the goals.[LNB]"We said before the game that our outlets would be the full-backs, forward thrusting and giving us an impact. They certainly did that."[LNB]Laws was delighted to see Eagles, the Clarets' stand-out performer so far this season, get his name on the scoresheet. Despite a series of glittering displays of late, tonight's goals were his first and second of the season in the league.[LNB]Laws added: "Chris had 20 shots against Bristol and none of them went in. I thought we were lethal in front of goal and we could have won by a bigger margin but everybody will go away happy and hopefully we can continue that against Millwall on Saturday.[LNB]"We're playing with confidence. There's nobody jumping around in the dressing room but we're playing with confidence."[LNB]Nigel Pearson, whose Hull side had not conceded in 279 minutes of Championship football prior to Tuesday night, were taken apart and he was in no mood to examine his side's frailties.[LNB]"It was a shocking performance and we'd kept three clean sheets prior to that and looked harder to beat," he said. "It's very disappointing."[LNB]Asked where it went wrong, Pearson replied: "Where do you want to start? They didn't have to work hard enough for their goals, we didn't stop crosses, didn't track runners.[LNB]"At the start of the second half we go another two goals behind inside nine minutes so it becomes a damage-limitation exercise.[LNB]"Quite frankly I'm not happy about the performance but it's my team and my responsibility."
