BURNLEY defender Michael Keane insists the team’s target remains promotion, despite their dip in form.

The Clarets go into tomorrow’s home game with Charlton Athletic hoping to arrest a run of six games without a win, including two defeats from three.

But Keane feels they are capable of getting back to the performances that earned them nine wins from 12 beforehand and propelled them into the top six, where they remain.

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“That’s testament to the run we were on before this,” said the former Manchester United youngster of their fifth-placed position. “We just need to get back to that.

“At the start of the season everyone was talking about promotion and that’s not changed and it won’t change no matter what happens the next few weeks. We feel like we’re good enough to go up and obviously there are other teams that feel like that as well.

“It’s going to be tough, we know that, but we just need to keep going and get back to winning ways.

“We know how good we are, we know on our day we can beat anyone. It’s just fine margins, conceding the odd goal or not taking our chances.

“In every game that we’ve lost or drawn we’ve been in the game - it’s just taking those chances and those fine moments. I’m sure it will come.”

And Keane believes the hectic festive period can provide the best remedy.

“When you get a negative result the best thing is to have another game quickly to try and get it out of the system.

“The games come thick and fast now and if we get a win on Saturday it helps with momentum. We can easily go on a good run,” said the 22-year-old, who says the players have not veered from their normal routine to try to prompt a upturn in form.

“We’ve just been going about our business like we always have. We went on a really good run before and didn’t change anything then so why would we change anything just because it’s not going as well?

“We need to get back to the basics, find our freedom in our play and when it comes to Saturday we’ll be raring to go.

“The spirit is still positive. Obviously we’ve been on not a great run now and we’ve just got to bounce back quickly and try and get out of it as quickly as possible.

“It’s a massive game for us tomorrow.

“Charlton are down the bottom of the league but we know how good they are and the threats they pose and they’ve had a few good results.

“We won’t take it lightly and we know if we want to be realistic about going up automatically then we need to start winning again and get back up there.”

An eight-point gap has opened up between Burnley and the top two of Middlesbrough and Brighton, but Keane added: “You see how fast things can change in this division. We were two points off top one month ago and now we’re eight behind.

“You can easily catch points up and that’s something we don’t want.

“We want to be chasing them up there.

“Hopefully we’ll get another win at the weekend and that will kick us on another run.

“There are loads of games to catch it up but there are a lot of good teams.

“If the number gets too big then it would be hard to catch up but it’s definitely do-able and there’s a long way to go.”