THE omens could not be better for Burnley on what will be their sixth visit to Leicester’s Walkers Stadium tomorrow.

They have never lost or even conceded a goal there.

As Eddie Howe bids to arrest a slump in form with eight games remaining, it seems as good as anywhere to start.

However, he knows one very good reason why such statistics should not breed complacency.

“I was at Portsmouth with Yak for a short time,” said the former defender ahead of his reunion with Nigerian striker Yakubu.

“He’s a real talent, a very strong lad who holds the ball up well, so he’s going to be a threat and someone we’re aware of.”

Yakubu has scored seven goals since joining on loan from Everton in mid-January, including a hat-trick in their last game, a 3-3 draw at Middlesbrough.

But Burnley’s Jay Rodriguez boasts a better record in the same period.

Eight of his 13 goals have been scored since Howe’s Howe’s appointment on January 16.

Yet while the Clarets boss is encouraged by the Burnley-born striker’s development this calendar year, he is looking for the rest of the squad to help ease the 21-year-old’s load, starting against Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Foxes.

“Jay is our main focus at the minute. If he's not scoring there's not an abundance of goals coming from elsewhere,” said Howe, whose side has conceded a minimum of two goals in their last four games, with only three in reply - all of which have been scored by Rodriguez.

“It's an area that we have looked at in the week. We need to create more chances and get more bodies in the box and we need to score more goals.

“We'd like to share it around a little bit more and start getting other people on the scoresheet.”

Of Rodriguez, he added: “He's done very well. He's impressed everybody.

“He has tended to score most of his goals coming in off the left hand side. Maybe at this stage in his career that's where you get the best out of him.

“It's difficult for young strikers, having their back to goal all the time playing down the middle can be difficult but when you're coming from an angle and he's coming in onto his stronger right foot from that left hand side he's done very well.

“We'll have a look at it and pick the best team.

“He's certainly a threat at the moment.”

And Howe wants those threats to multiply to make one final push for the play-off spots after falling further away from sixth place in midweek, after Reading beat Preston North End to increase the gap to six points.

Burnley still have a game in hand, against Middlesbrough a week on Tuesday, to make up ground.

But Howe knows the Clarets need to find their winning formula, and stop rivals Leicester and Nottingham Forest retrieving theirs in their next two games, to stay in touch.

“It will be difficult because Leicester are a very good side. They're in a similar position to us at the minute where they're going through a tough run, so we're hopefully going to be the ones to come out of that,” he said.

“There has to be positivity at this stage. We're still right in the mix.

“If we can win our game in hand the gap closes and there's still enough games for us to turn it around.

“But the longer it goes without us winning the more difficult it becomes and we are running out of games.

Let's be positive and try to have a go.

"We're just trying to produce a good performance and hopefully the result will come.

"I think at any stage of the season if you perform well you've got a good chance of winning the game. I don't think we've performed well in the four games we haven't won in.

"We're looking to end that run and put on a show for the fans.”

And Howe insists he isn’t fazed by the prospect of going head to head with a former England manager.

"It's not often you say that, but my focus will be on the game,” said the Burnley boss.

"It will be a great game - two clubs in a similar position in the league and desperate for three points to get back on track.”