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Nick Pope insists Burnley cannot afford to write off Saturday's Premier League clash with Man City as a defeat with the Clarets desperate for points in their bid to avoid relegation

Nick Pope has stressed Saturday's clash with Manchester City is not a match relegation-threatened Burnley can 'write off'.

With 11 games to go, the Clarets are 19th in the Premier League, four points adrift of 17th-placed Everton.

They play the Toffees at home next Wednesday and rock-bottom Norwich away four days later after hosting table-toppers City, who they have suffered nine successive losses to in all competitions.

Burnley are on a run of three straight defeats and need points desperately to avoid the drop

Goalkeeper Pope told a press conference: 'You want to pick up points every game. Eleven games to go, in the position we are in, it's not necessarily targeting certain games.