AS a nation we are on the brink of Brexit, but Burnley’s Dwight McNeil is still mixing it in Europe.

The winger has yet to get on the scoresheet this season, and is not as prolific on the assists front as he would like, but that does not mean he isn’t having a positive impact on the team.

Indeed, McNeil has emerged as the best dribbler in Europe.

Statistics have shown that of the 80 players to have attempted 30 or more dribbles in Europe’s top five leagues this season, McNeil has the best success rate with 73.5 per cent.

Last season, the top four in this category included Adama Traore, Neymar, Messi and Allan Saint-Maximin.

“It’s a sign of his continued development, when you’re getting questioned, it’s because people are expecting it, but that expectation comes from performances,” said Burnley boss Dyche.

“His performances now are leading people to question, so I think that’s an incredibly powerful thing.

“A year-and-a-half ago, he was a young kid coming through.

“If he did one dribble, people would be ‘oh great, he’s only a young kid’, and now people want to see that more because we’ve seen him do it.

“It’s that double-edged sword. It’s a really powerful thing that people are now ‘can you give us a bit more?’, when, if we had just put him in the team last week, everyone would be buzzing about this amazing young player.

“Your eyes sometimes normalise, and you think ‘actually, could he do a bit more, could he do that?’.

“But go back a year and a half, and you’d be ‘cor, fantastic for him to be thrown in and do that’.

“There’s a different way of judging it, but people are a bit more expectant, and that’s because he’s delivered and delivered very well.”

But while McNeil is widely recognised as a creative force, Dyche is just as pleased with his defensive work.

“I think he does the hard work side of the game very well with the defensive side and I think he understands it and what it means to the side that he can do that,” the Clarets boss added.

“I think he is a very rounded player and I like that side of him.

“In the modern game sometimes players are looked at as one thing and one thing only and in some teams that works, they want a specialist player for a specialist way of working in a team.

“I certainly am a fan of a player who can do a bit of everything, you want them to defend for the team you want them to work and you want them to have talent and I think he has a nice mixture of all of them.”

The Burnley boss added: “He’s got quality, there’s no two ways about it, and he strikes a lovely ball.

“I think we ask a lot of him as a team player, and that individual greed if you like, maybe being a little bit more greedy around the box, I think it will add to his game.

“But he’s going along nicely.”