BURNLEY boss Eddie Howe has demanded home improvements from his side ahead of tomorrow’s Turf Moor visit of Coventry City.

The Clarets’ top six charge was scuppered by Millwall, who became the first side to win at Turf Moor in 2011.

Howe declared there is still “a lot of work to do” if they are to make the most of the first of two games in hand this week.

But he hopes to prove Saturday’s show was just a bad day at the office by bouncing back against the Sky Blues.

“It was a disappointing one for us. I don’t think we performed at all how we can. I thought we were below par,” said the Burnley boss.

“Credit to Millwall because I thought they defended very well and made it difficult, got bodies behind the ball and played quite deep.

“Their gameplan worked well and we just lacked our usual spark.

“We were poor in possession, which is usually our strength, but we gave the ball away and probably played a little direct as well, which surprised me.

“There’s a lot of work to do, but the good thing is we’ve got a game on Tuesday to bounce back in.

“We’ve got to deal with setbacks.

“We’ll look to bounce back and try to come here and put a real performance on and try to play with the intensity that we have done, because I thought that was missing.”

And the 33-year-old is determined not to waste the opportunity to move to within a point of sixth-placed Nottingham Forest, after their home draw with Scunthorpe United limited the damage of Burnley’s defeat.

“The league table could look very different if we get the results we want in those two games in hand,” said Howe.

“They’re going to be important games for us and we need to attack it right and bounce back.

“It’s an opportunity to put it right in front of our own fans.”

After earning back-to-back clean sheets going into Saturday’s game, Howe was particularly disappointed with the first two goals conceded against the Lions.

And he admitted that was something they would address at Gawthorpe today.

“We were chasing the game towards the end and leaving spaces and they hit us on the counter for the third, but the two set plays are disappointing and it’s back to the training ground and hard work to try to put that right,” he said.

“We have to look at ourselves and our performance. I don’t think there are any excuses. "We were below par. In the first I thought Millwall were the better side.

“Despite an improved beginning to the second half we then dropped away again. "Sometimes you learn more from a defeat than you do from winning, and I think we learned a lot.”