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Blades striker McBurnie says of their amazing unbeaten away record: We show no fear.. we’ll be just as positive at Man City next.. 100 per cent

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McBurnie

OLI McBURNIE believes Sheffield United can keep their incredible away record going – even though the next two trips are to Manchester City and Liverpool. visits to the Etihad on December 29 and Anfield on January 2 will not faze Chris Wilder’s men.

He said: “The confidence now is so high. You can see we have no fear, no matter who we play against. We’ll be just as confident going to Manchester City – 100 per cent.

“We’ve already shown we’re good enough against the big teams. We’ve played Chelsea, we’ve played Tottenham, Manchester

United and Liverpool. And either we’ve got results or, like Liverpool at home, we lost 1-0 and were really unlucky.

“We’re not here to be spectators. The gaffer isn’t happy with shirt-swapping or saying hello to people before games.

“We’re profession­al athletes and want to test ourselves against the best in the world. That’s what we’re doing at the moment – and we’re causing some upsets.”

Given his goal for Swansea at the Liberty Stadium in January was the last one to beat

Sheffield United on the road, the £20million striker is well placed to analyse the secret of their success.

“The game plan we take into every away game is good,” said McBurnie (above, celebratin­g the winner).

“We’re not going to dominate the ball all the time, we know that. We know sometimes we have to stay profession­al with 11 men behind the ball and then when we get it we need to make the counters count. That’s what we did again.

“The away form is now a crazy stat. It shows how resilient the boys have been and how profession­al they are.”

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