JOHANN Berg Gudmundsson believes a togetherness and a lack of egos is helping him to make history with his club and his country this season.

Gudmundsson was an integral part of the Iceland side that became the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup last month and his form for his country has helped him win back his starting place with the Clarets.

Both Gudmundsson’s national and club side have bloodied the noses of bigger sides recently, with Iceland getting the better of Turkey and Croatia to top their qualifying group and the Clarets sitting seventh in the Premier League after 12 games.

Gudmundsson can see a resemblance between the two squads and believes a desire to work hard for each other and being better as a collective are the major driving forces of the success.

“I’ve probably said it since I came here that there’s a lot of similarities between the teams,” the 27-year-old said.

“Normally we are the underdog, not a lot of pressure. But we as a team believe we can do it in this league and it’s the same with Iceland - we can do it at that level.

“There are definitely similarities, in both teams there is a group of players willing to work for each other, no egos to ruin it for everyone else. Everyone is going in the same direction and that’s really important in team sport. Everybody is good mates in the Iceland team, doing it for each other because at the end there’s a World Cup that everyone wants to go to. Everyone is going in the same direction and it feels a bit like that.”

Iceland stunned England in Euro 2016 on the way to the quarter-finals but they have surpassed that by reaching their first ever World Cup.

Similarly, Burnley secured top flight survival for the first time in more than four decades last term but they have improved again this term to sit level on points with Liverpool and Arsenal.

That success is leading towards both teams being taken more seriously, although Gudmundsson insists he is quite happy for Iceland and Burnley to continue to be underestimated.

“I don’t really care what others think as long as we are winning games. Hopefully teams won’t take us too seriously,” the former Charlton Athletic man said.

“We know our home form showed last season we can definitely do it in this league - it’s just about combining it with away form. Teams should take us more seriously because we are doing quite well.”