Sean Dyche wants Matt Taylor to continue taking penalties for Burnley despite last weekend's costly miss against Leicester, while adding the team must chip in and can't rely on Danny Ings alone to provide scoring punch in the late days of their relegation fight.
Burnley tumbled to the bottom of the Premier League on Saturday when they lost 1-0 to the Foxes.
After being fouled in the area by defender Paul Konchesky, Taylor slipped in the run up to the spot-kick, causing his effort to strike the outside of a post and go wide.
To rub salt into the wounds, Leicester then went straight up the other end and scored to seal a win that dragged them out of the bottom four.
Taylor would be forgiven for stepping away from penalty-taking duties, but he said after the match that he wanted to keep the responsibility and his manager is happy for him to do so.
"If he's ready to take a penalty, then he'll take a penalty," Dyche said when asked if the midfielder was still his first-choice penalty taker.
Taylor scored two crucial penalties in Portsmouth's unlikely bid for survival nine years ago.
And if Burnley earn another penalty on Saturday at Taylor's old club West Ham, Dyche thinks he would stand a good chance of scoring.
"The way he gripped the ball and walked after it I had no other thought than he would score," Dyche said. "His history of taking penalties is clear and he's done well with big occasions and big moments.
"I didn't say anything to him afterwards. What am I going to say that's going to make him feel any different than he feels?
"He's old enough and wise enough to know that the goods, bads, ins and outs of football. And he's also an honest campaigner which we like here."
The defeat means Burnley are now four points from safety with four matches to go, with a lack of goals has been a problem over their recent five-match winless run.
Danny Ings, who scored nine goals by the middle of February, has not found the net in his last nine games, and Dyche wants other players to start chipping in with a few goals to help the team's survival bid.
"It's not just Danny, the team have to stand up," Dyche said.
"He's certainly trying. And that's one of the key components, showing that willingness.
"It's not a situation where you can just rely on one player. Of course he has scored goals this season and we know he has got goals in him.
"But that has to be reinforced with the team and how the team have the clarity to take chances well. It can't just be on one person."
Ashley Barnes and George Boyd are the only other Burnley players to have passed the five-goal mark so far this season.
Forward Sam Vokes, who is yet to find the net this term, is a doubt for Saturday's must-win game at Upton Park. The Welshman is still struggling with the thigh injury that caused him to miss the Leicester game.