It’s only matchweek 2 of the 2025-26 season, but Burnley already find themselves facing a kinda-sorta-need-to-win situation when fellow newly promoted side Sunderland visit Turf Moor on Saturday (10 am ET) after suffering a heavy defeat in their Premier League return.

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Scott Parker’s Clarets were beaten 3-0 by Tottenham Hotspur last weekend, putting them straight into the bottom-three and reminding everyone at the club just how difficult it will be to stay up this season (as if they needed a reminder). The result and performance were in stark contrast to last season’s successes in the Championship, where Burnley conceded just 16 goals (14 fewer than anyone else) and never gave up more than one goal in any of their 46 league games. “The clinical and ruthles

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