Ben Mee: Burnley dressing room ‘very confident’ of securing Premier League survival

Burnley were beaten 2-0 at Southampton on Saturday, but lost no ground in the battle to avoid the drop with all of the bottom six teams losing over the weekend.

That means Sean Dyche’s side are just one point behind Sunderland, and three behind Aston Villa and QPR, as they head into back-to-back home games against Tottenham and Arsenal.

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Despite defeat on the south coast, Mee felt the Clarets weren’t outshone by the Champions League chasing Saints.

“We’re positive still,” he said. “It wasn’t an easy place to go.

“We’re looking forward to the games coming up, Arsenal and Spurs, and we’re still very confident.”

Burnley created several good chances in the first half, but substitute goalkeeper Kelvin Davis twice denied Sam Vokes and also saved well from Danny Ings.

George Boyd was also adamant he should have been awarded a penalty when Jose Fonte clipped him inside the box.

“We had chances, it’s putting them away,” said Mee. “We had the penalty that could have been given as well. But we didn’t take our chances.

“I thought we set our stall out really well and took the game to them, but it fizzled out a little bit towards the end.

“We gave as good as we got, especially in the first half. It was a good performance and we can take a lot from it.”

Ronald Koeman’s decision to introduce Victor Wanyama for Dusan Tadic at half time gave Southampton more solidity, something which Mee believes had an impact on the second 45 minutes.

“They played the ball around a lot more, they kept the ball and they’ve got some good players,” he said. “They killed the game.”

The left back was also well placed to see Jason Shackell divert the ball beyond his own goalkeeper for Southampton’s second goal.

“It was an awkward height,” said Mee. “It fizzed past Duffo (Michael Duff) and Shacks has just tried to get something on it and it has come flush off his knee and it flew past Tom (Heaton), so it was really unlucky.”