ADE Akinbiyi expects be on the receiving end once again when he returns to former club Crystal Palace this weekend.

The Burnley striker was booed mercilessly by baying Leicester fans on Tuesday night, but responded with a matchwinning goal that sent Steve Cotterill's side to Selhurst Park in upbeat mode.

And Akinbiyi, who spent 18 months with Palace after joining them from City for £2.2million in February 2002, has warned once-supportive Eagles supporters that crowd abuse only drives him on to silence the snipers in the best possible way.

"The reaction I got at Leicester wasn't a surprise," insisted Akinbiyi. "I get it no matter where I go and I'll probably get the same treatment at Crystal Palace on Saturday.

"I am used to it now and it doesn't bother me at all. All it does is gee you up to do well and (at Leicester) I answered my critics the best way possible.

"We got the three points and went back home on the coach happy and now I can look forward to the game at Palace and hopefully do the same thing."

Akinbiyi ended a four-game drought - his longest since joining Burnley last February - by finding the target at Leicester.

And he admitted: "I needed that goal to be fair. I've been playing up front of my own and it's been a few games without a goal, but obviously the team has been doing well, which I don't mind. It's when we are losing and I'm not scoring that I start to worry.

It makes it a lot harder on your own because you don't seem to get as many chances and any you do get, you feel you need to score."