THEY say there’s always a story when you’re in the Premier League, and Burnley have been finding that out the hard way so far this season.

During September they faced constant questions about their inability to score goals.

The club record 655-minute goal drought attracted plenty of scrutiny as it came in the top flight, and it was a subject at every pre-match and post-match press conference until it was finally ended in the 2-2 draw at Leicester City.

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Sean Dyche and his squad might have been delighted to stop being asked about their ability to find the back of the net, but a month later the focus has switched from the front to the back.

The shining light during the times of toil in front of goal was the defence, with three clean sheets in a row obtained against Manchester United, Crystal Palace and Sunderland.

But all of a sudden that defensive unit that had looked so reliable in the early stages of the season are now all at sea.

Instead of being asked when his strikers are going to start scoring, Dyche is being asked when his defenders are going to stop conceding.

Four came at West Brom, two at Leicester, three at home to West Ham and yesterday three more against Everton.

After the famine, the Clarets have found the back of the net in three successive top flight games, but they have shipped 12 goals in four games, and you are not going to get many points when you need to score three times every game just to get a draw.

What will be most frustrating for the back four and Dyche is the manner of the goals conceded.

The manager put West Ham’s three headers down to good crosses, and while the deliveries were excellent, it has to be a worry when you concede three headed goals in a game.

Yesterday Samuel Eto’o got his head on the end of Leighton Baines cross after just three minutes.

It was the eighth time the Clarets have conceded a headed goal this season. That’s 50 per cent of the 16 goals they have conceded.

To put that into context last season saw the lowest percentage of goals scored by headers in the Premier League since Opta started collecting stats 11 seasons ago, with just 15 per cent of goals coming from headers.

It also marked a low in the number of headed shots per match, with an average of just four.

More goals are being scored in the top flight than ever before.

The last five seasons have been the five most productive for goals a game averages, but less and less are from headers.

Teams are finding it easier to defend against headed goals, either through stopping the crosses at source or getting tighter in the box, but at the moment Burnley are the exception.

Yesterday Eto’o managed to get a run on Michael Duff and could get in front of the experienced centre half to head home, but the real problem was giving Leighton Baines, probably the best crosser of the ball in the Premier League, so much time to clip a ball in from the byline.

There were of course positives at Turf Moor.

Danny Ings got his first Premier League goal and there were good spells of pressure for the home side.

But to have a chance in this division they have to tighten up at the back sooner rather than later.