THE Clarets turned on the style in front of the Sky TV cameras on Monday night and I think they also helped allay a few creeping fears about whether we could cut it in the Premier League.

After two defeats on the spin – albeit at Chelsea and champions Leicester City – we stuck two without reply past Watford and turned in what has to be the most consistent, and best, performance of the season.

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Sean Dyche stuck with the 4-5-1 formation that ticked over for 40-odd minutes at Leicester but he made a couple of changes and that seemed to pay off.

Andre Gray served the first of his four-game ban with Sam Vokes coming in as the lone frontman while Johann Berg Gudmundsson replaced Scott Arfield.

Straight from the kick-off we looked to attack with purpose and press the visiting Hornets as high up the pitch as possible.

The midfield trio of Jeff Hendrick, Dean Marney and the inspired Steven Defour didn’t give Watford’s engine room a second to rest, harrying and pushing like their lives depended on it.

Defour was deserving of his man of the match award but it really could have been any of the three. Hendrick looked neat on the ball and pushed up to join Vokes and got his first goal in claret and blue with a header from a Defour cross just before half time.

Special word for Marney as well who did the dirty stuff in front of the back four, protected the defence and always provided an outlet to keep Burnley moving.

Another contender was Vokes who won pretty much everything in the air all night, bullying the three Watford central defenders and making a thankless task look easy up front on his own.

Michael Keane notched his first goal just after half time from – you guessed it – another Defour cross and that is now 80 per cent of all the Clarets’ goals that the Belgian has been involved with this season.

I am sure Dyche knew before the game that his side was capable of a performance like that but he certainly won’t let anyone get ahead of themselves, especially given that Arsenal are the visitors to the Turf on Sunday.

That said, we should fear no-one.