Scott Parker has called on Burnley’s fans to stick with the team during Saturday’s “humongous” clash against Brentford.
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The Clarets have the chance to cut the gap to safety to just five points when they play a day before Nottingham Forest, the team they’re trying to catch.
While Parker’s side are coming into the game off the back of a positive four-point haul from back-to-back away games, it’s fair to say they’ve under-performed at Turf Moor this season - having won just two league games at home all season, with the last one coming back in October.
It’s led to frustration among the Clarets faithful, which came to a head in the last home game in the league against West Ham - culminating in chants of “you’re getting sacked in the morning” and “we want Parker out”.
But if the Clarets are to give themselves any chance of pulling off a great escape, Parker knows everyone needs to be pulling in the same direction.
“At this moment in time, the one thing that we're all searching for is probably that home win in front of our home supporters,” he said.
“We sense and we feel the frustration, certainly at home. Again, I understand certain elements. I think we're all searching as a group, us as players, us as staff. We're searching for this win at home now that hopefully can give our fanbase that hope and certainly that satisfaction of what we do.
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Scott Parker is calling on the Burnley fans to stick with his team this weekend (Photo by Molly Darlington/Getty Images)
“I've said it many a time, we get judged just purely on a result and I think there's much more to it sometimes.
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“But for sure, where we currently are and what we've been through over the last few weeks, it will be nothing but massive for our home supporters. That's everything we're going to try and do this weekend.”
While Parker accepts it’s ultimately down to his players to set the mood, he also believes the fans have an important part to play.
“It's often said, and the cliche is, it can be a 12th man,” he added.
“The power of your home supporters, if the ball gets put down the side and it goes out for a throw or a tackle or you win two corners on the bounce and all of a sudden the away team are feeling like: ‘oh, this is coming on top of us’.
“That’s the power of a home support, not only against the opposition that they're feeling suffocated at certain moments, but the power of what it brings to our players on the pitch as well.
“That doesn't mean to say that it needs to be a goal or it needs to be some exquisite bits of play. It needs that feeling that as a player, you feel that: ‘yeah, full support here and the crowd are right behind us’. That's something that hopefully we can try and get at the weekend.
“Again, that'll come down to us first and foremost and these players will be under no illusions going into this game that first and foremost, we need to set that tempo. We need to give our home supporters something to shout about. They need to see that passion. They need to see that desire. They need to see every bit of us to get them right behind us - and I'm hoping that that would be the case.
“The demand, I'm hoping, from our supporters is that they'll stick with us and they'll be that extra bit what we need the weekend.”
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