SEAN Dyche is happy with Burnley’s increased tactical flexibility this season, but believes the Premier League poses less of a tactical challenge than the Championship.

However the Burnley boss is aware the biggest difference comes in the quality on the pitch and tonight he will try and set up his side to stop an in-form Watford, who have scored in every one of their six games this season and arrive at Turf Moor on the back of wins over West Ham and Manchester United, scoring seven goals in the process.

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The Clarets are likely to return to their favoured 4-4-2 formation for the visit of the Hornets, having played 4-2-3-1 in the defeat at Leicester City last week.

Dyche was happy with how the plan for the Foxes worked for 45 minutes, but admits it led to a lack of a cutting edge up front.

“It’s a building process, can the team operate in different manners?

“Yes, I think they can,” he said.

“There was always nuances to how we operated but we changed it in a more obvious manner.

“It worked to a degree but I don’t think we can penetrate as much as normally do. We kept the ball and it was working quite well until we give away a really soft goal and then another soft goal after half time.”

Burnley have only really veered from the 4-4-2 twice in the last two seasons, at Middlesbrough last year and at West Brom in the 2014/15 Premier League season.

While Dyche is happy with his side’s ability to change it up now, he insists you say a great range of systems and style in the Championship.

“Strangely the formats in the Premier League are more similar than in the Championship,” he said. “In the Championship you have different tactical shapes and styles within that, you have a passing 4-3-3, or a 4-3-3 that is a back-to-front 4-3-3, but in the Premier League more often than not 4-3-3 or a version of it, so a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-2-3-1, then within that most are more passing styles, so it’s quite a similar format that you come across more than the Championship.

“The difference is whatever format it is they are better players. Over a season the team that has got the beat players and the format etc. are the team that wins, as simple as that. Our winning is different to Man City’s. They’re thought of to win the Premier League, our is not, but how far can we push our version of it to do what we did.”

Burnley will tonight look to become the first team this season to shut out the Hornets, with their strikers Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo in fine form this season.

But Dyche is wary of focusing just on these two, with plenty of talent in behind as well.

“They’ve got some really good attacking players and players that are getting more recognised in the Premier League,” he said.

“The thing that is good about their model is the amount of scouting they do, they have a massive scouting system, because they’ve got three clubs, they’ve got scouts everywhere so they can get players from all over Europe.

“That helps to add layers into the club, they carry massive staff and a massive squad but they make it work.

“They get all kinds of different players in, they have a load of different players then can use and that has aided the main men like Deeney and Igahlo, they haven’t changed much but the group behind them have.”