The Clarets will play their next game on Wednesday, January 31, against the defending champions, Manchester City, in 16 days.
Manager Vincent Kompany is content that his players are taking a rest over the winter break after the stressful holiday season.
The objective was always to give them as many days as we could allow from a performance perspective since we have a lot of foreign players now and we returned a little early because we had that large break before. After taking at least a week off, they will return and be fully operational.
“That’s great that we have more than ten days before the City game,”
Additionally, Kompany and his team will be able to evaluate past performances and identify areas that require iHe said: “It gives us time to look back on the things we definitely need to keep doing and the things we might want to tweak.
mprovement going forward during the inactive period.
“It gives us time to look at the state of the squad as well because we had a few injuries that in a big game like this we could have done without.
“We will use the break positively. Our story is still a positive story and okay, we’re a number of points behind Luton and the other ones, but we feel like we could put a run together.”
Despite the frustration of the 1-1 draw against Luton Town, Kompany insists he will remain as upbeat as possible.
“It might be a good thing to have a few days off,” he said.
“I’m not someone that lives on negativity, so it’s important for me that tomorrow is a positive day. Tomorrow is a day to go again and move forward with a positive team.
“Probably I could have been on the training ground and still helping the players but at this moment these few days off are not a bad thing as well
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