Burnley boss Brian Laws admits his players froze in Sunday's derby defeat to Blackburn Rovers.

Laws, whose team are three points from safety with six games to play, admitted the pressure of the occasion may have got to his players.

"It was a local derby with a lot at stake and I thought we were a little bit nervous in the first half," he said.

"Maybe Blackburn were a little more confident in terms of their game-play than we were in the first half because they have secured themselves in the Premier League and the pressure was quite firmly at our feet."