Leicester City Assistant Manager, Bruno Oliveira, believes there are clear signs of progress, even this early in the season and that soon the good play will reap the rewards that the performances deserve.

The bright style of play has been in evidence and spirits are high both in the camp and in the stands, which Oliveira believes bodes well for the coming months:

"It is a good sign, the result of what we have been doing during pre-season, working a lot on passing and ball movement, the lads are responding very well.

They are trying to embrace our ideas, get the ball down to play, to entertain, to create chances and I think we are improving."

The City Assistant Manager was also impressed with the way the squad has adapted, despite the late change in manager so close to the beginning of the season:

"It is true we did not have much time. The pre-season was not prepared by us so we had to accept the four weeks. We would have liked a couple more weeks to concentrate on the work and to focus on the essentials.

We had to focus on what was important, a change of dynamics, our style of play and the progress of what we want to see in the game."

City's play, it could be argued, deserves more than just the one point so far, a fact not lost on Paulo Sousa's number two:

"We have been a bit unlucky in results. We should have won the last game, but what we are more concerned about is to see that the team is improving in the style of play, it (the team) is changing its mentality and its approach to the game. This is what we are looking for and the results will come."

City face a tough test with Saturday's trip to recently relegated Burnley, a team that Bruno believes will be one of the most organised in the division:

"Our start has been difficult, not so lucky on the fixtures because we have just had Middlesbrough who have invested a lot of money in the summer, bought a lot of good quality players to push for promotion and now we have Burnley which has the most stability.

"They have been together for two or three years now, they know each other pretty well and they have their principles very stabilised.

They have their own identity and are very strong, and at the moment, for me, they are the best prepared team in the Championship.

They have kept their players from the Premiership, they know the way to get promotion through the play-offs as they did last time so they are the best candidates to push for promotion."