Burnley boss Sean Dyche has warned his players against taking Chelsea lightly in Thursday's Premier League clash at Turf Moor.
The Clarets have won each of their last five Premier League matches, and a victory over last season's English champions would move them above Arsenal into sixth position in the table.
Dyche's side recorded a 3-2 win when they travelled to Chelsea on the opening weekend of the 2017-18 campaign, but the Burnley boss is under no illusions as to the size of the task facing his team on Thursday night.
"Chelsea have had a few challenges this season, but you only have to look at the Southampton game to remind yourself," Dyche told reporters. "It is a funny thing against the real top sides, against any side in the Premier League, but particularly the top sides they can look quiet.
"And then literally over a matter of minutes pick it up and all of a sudden they look like a different side. We've seen it right in front of our eyes, I've have seen it through live games, TV screens, many times. One team, a slightly lesser team like ourselves on paper, looking at that game and thinking 'there is nothing in this'.
"But then boom boom boom and it's done. That's the power of the real top teams. Chelsea still have that. Make no mistake we are moving forward but we are not there, we still have to work for every inch."
Chelsea are currently fifth in the Premier League on 60 points, and would move to within five points of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur with a victory at Turf Moor.
Matt Law
