“IT’S A POSITIVE POINT” SAYS VITINHO

Brazilian reflects on Wolves performance

Vitinho was keen to take the positive point from Tuesday night’s encounter with Wolves at Turf Moor.

Extending the Clarets unbeaten run to four games, the Brazilian who started all four of the fixtures, was pleased with recent performances and is fully focussed on going again on Saturday at Goodison Park.

“For me it’s a very good point, it’s very important. I think we had a very good performance. We conceded a goal after, what for me was no fault, but we go again Saturday.”

It was teammate Jacob Bruun Larsen who made the breakthrough on the night 37 minutes in, before Rayan Ait-Nouri equalised in first half added time.

“We had a lot of chances, not only today but every game before we had a lot of chances. We need to do better because after a good performance we need to score. And today was like this but we go again, we’re going to train hard and on Saturday we go again.”

The 24-year-old has received praise from his manager and fans for his work rate and while he says it’s good to hear his main focus is on helping the team.

“I’m very happy here! With the fans, with the players, with everyone in the Club. I think now players, everyone, needs to be ready to play and now I play like winger, left-back, right-back. I’m here to play, to help the team you know.

“If I’ve played good…it’s good, I’m happy but what’s important is the team, to be together, and in the end, we change the situation, we stay in the Premier League, it’s the objective.”

Draws against West Ham United, Chelsea and victory over Brentford has seen the Clarets enjoy a positive run of late, at a crucial time in the campaign. Does he believe this highlights how far the team has come as the season’s progressed?

“The Premier League is very tough, it’s not easy, every game is tough. But I think we have played well; you only need to score, and we work on this in training. We believe we’re going to start to score, and the situation will change.

“The focus is only win the games, change the situation. We believe, we’re going to train for this and in the end, it’s going to change.”

Another big test awaits in the form of former Clarets manager Sean Dyche’s Everton side this weekend. However, rather than thinking too much about the opponents at this stage, first and foremost Vitinho says the Clarets need to focus on what they can do collectively to come out with a positive result.

“We start to think about them now but first we have to start to think about us. Play football, enjoy the game, go onto the pitch and do everything that you need to do and then when you do this you have a good game. It’s only to score because we have a good team, we have good players, good staff. After us you start to think about them but now it’s focus on training, what Kompany’s going to say about them, and Saturday go again.”