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Burnley manager Sean Dyche proud as Ings strikes secure win at Stoke

#INSERT type:image caption:Danny Ings struck twice to ensure another Burnley victory. END#

Burnley boss Sean Dyche expressed his pride after the Clarets completed back-to-back victories with a 2-1 triumph at Stoke.

Dyche's men defeated Hull 1-0 at home -- the first win of their comeback Premier League campaign -- in their last outing.

And after they followed that by securing another three points at the Britannia Stadium, Burnley are off the bottom of the table and up to 18th, below 17th-placed Leicester on goal difference alone.

Dyche, whose side raced into a two-goal lead through a quickfire Danny Ings brace early on, conceded a Jonathan Walters header around the half-hour and then withstood increasing pressure, said: "Yes, I am proud.

"It is a different way of winning and that is an important factor. Not for one minute do we think we are going to roll around the Premier League slicking the ball around for 95 minutes.

"I thought we were very good for the first 15, starting on the front foot and scoring two high-quality goals on the counter.

"Fair play to Stoke -- they just came at us in wave after wave. But the framework of our team was very good, and the old-fashioned traits that I believe in whole-heartedly were on show today -- the will, the desire, the respect, the honesty and the team ethic.

"Everyone tells me that, in the Premier League, back-to-back wins is massive, and I'll go with that, of course. The team are developing and learning, and learning fast.

"I've enjoyed looking at the table. But I said it last time and I meant it -- it is one win, and after that you need another one. And we still do. We need more. It is there to be enjoyed, but we need more wins."

Ings, the top scorer of Burnley's 2013-14 promotion campaign, appears to now be finding his feet this season, having returned from a hamstring problem in October.

He now has three goals this term, and Dyche said: "At the start of the season there was a lot of expectation on him, and that is very hard for young players.

"I said all along his injury would do him good in a strange kind of way, and he has come out of it looking nice and sharp and fresh.

"He'll learn a load from what he is doing at the moment. I think he had already name for himself before this season, and it's now about how far he can take his name forward."

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