GEORGE Boyd has called on Burnley to all but secure their safety over the next month as they prepare to embark on a crucial run of four successive away games.

The Clarets start life on the road at Boyd’s former club Hull City on Saturday aiming to win on Humberside for the third time in the Premier League era ahead of trips to Swansea, Liverpool and Sunderland.

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With three of those opponents in a relegation battle of their own Boyd believes the pressure will be on the home sides.

Burnley have a 10-point cushion on the bottom three thanks to nine league wins at Turf Moor, but Boyd is determined to break the Clarets away hoodoo before they return to home soil on April 1.

“The pressure is more on them than us, we’ve got that nice gap,” Boyd said of trips to Hull, Swansea and Sunderland.

“We want to get our away record going. It’s a great opportunity in the next four games to be safe. We could get our safety in the next three or four games so that’s the main aim.”

Burnley have already surpassed the number of wins they collected in the 2014/15 season (seven) and need just one goal and three points to match those totals from two years ago.

The Clarets’ outstanding home league record has put them in a strong position to secure safety, and Boyd believes it will be a huge filip for the club if they could stay up in relative comfort.

“We’ve worked so hard, to get it done this early would be a massive achievement for the team and the club,” he said.

“The sooner we can get it done the better.”

It is a return to Hull for the wideman and Burnley’s record signing Robbie Brady this weekend.

While Boyd admits it will be nice to go back to the club that gave him his first chance in the Premier League, he is focused on plunging them into even more trouble.

“We’ll go there and hopefully get the three points and put them in even more trouble, that’s the main aim,” the 31-year-old said.

“It’s always nice to go back. There’s been a bit of a squad overhaul there now and there’s not many left (from my time) but it will be nice to go back and it’s most important we get the result we need.”

The Tigers have shown signs of life under new boss Marco Silva despite losing Robert Snodgrass and Jake Livermore in the January transfer window and Boyd knows they will be a tough test on their own patch.

“You get a lot of foreign lads come in and it can take time to gel but he (Marco Silva) seems to have got them in straight away and they’ve picked up some results,” said Boyd.

“Hopefully we’ll stop that.”