COOL customer Andre Gray says there would have been more pressure on his penalty in front of the home fans than Blackburn Rovers' rival following.

Having missed his last spot kick, in last month's goalless draw at Reading, Burnley's top scorer showed nerves of steel to stick away his first half spot kick on derby day.

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Gray had to face up to more than 2,400 jeering fans in the away end, but said: “There’s probably more pressure in the home end if anything because the fans want you to score and you’re facing them.

“There’s no pressure. You have to have tunnel vision in penalties and it’s you against the keeper.

“It’s a bit of mind games as well but you need to make your mind up and stick with it. If he saves it, he saves it.

"It’s a penalty, you miss some, you have some saved. The best in the world miss them.

“That’s how football works sometimes. Obviously that happened against Reading but we’ve moved on.

“It was important to just stay confident and have the determination to get up and take one again and be confident in doing it, and I did that."

Gray's 21st goal of the season proved enough to separate the teams and push Burnley back into top spot, after Middlesbrough's Friday night win had temporarily knocked them off.

And the striker urged the Clarets to keep their foot on the gas in order to stay there.

"It gets down to the nitty and gritty now. We’ve got 11 games left, pitches aren’t that nice, the weather’s not the best and games are not going to be any easier, they’re going to get harder. The pressure’s going to come on everybody in the top six.

“It’s down to us. We train the same now as we did at the start of the season and that won’t change," he said.

“We might lost another game, we might not, we might win every game. But no matter what we won’t give up and we’ll give 100 per cent every day in training, and especially on the pitch even when it’s not our day.

“I think that’s won us a lot of games."