Pardew was being hunted down by the supporters, but he's survived, engineered a recovery, and arrives with his team crippled with injuries.
Speaking before his squad departed for Lancashire, he said: "I hold no fears of going to Burnley. I think they've done terrifically just of late. In fact, in the last three games they've got a better points total than us, so we respect them but we don't fear them. We do also know that they'll be gunning for us and we need to be ready.
"I think it will be a great result, whatever result we get, in terms of the players we have available. I also think we can win, and we've got the players that can cause Burnley problems, hopefully we can.
"They're going well though, and in Danny Ings they have a player in form and a player who is impressing at the moment. They were a team who were kind of helped assembled by Eddie Howe, who I have a great deal of respect for, and Sean's come in and taken it on magnificently.
"He's done an absolutely brilliant job and that club is a well run club and a difficult place to go, for any Premier League team."
Tonight, Dyche will take charge of Burnley for the 100th time. It will be his 93rd league game in charge, but add a couple in the FA Cup and five League Cup ties and it takes us to three figures.
His record to date is won 39, drawn 31, lost 22 in the league, becoming won 42, drawn 31, lost 26 with the cup ties added.
The 96th of those games was the 3-0 defeat at Arsenal, but the 97th was the home win against Hull, our first win of the season which Dyche thinks has changed some opinions. "I think the first win does that," he said.
"Before that everyone is thinking, 'Will they win, can they win?', because they read the press. You get the first win and teams possibly look at us differently and think, 'Okay they've got that off their back now so therefore they'll probably be feeling better about it', which it's fair to say is human nature.
"We went on and got the second win at Stoke, arguably Saturday we had enough chances to win again, so better signs and that means people take you even more seriously.
"What was deemed a really poor start has turned into not such a poor start all of a sudden and people are thinking, 'Hang on a minute, they're delivering, they're getting points'. There's a different look to us now from the outside looking in."
He added: “There were a lot of questions for the first 10 games, then that changes. We don’t do blind faith here, we do realities, and we weren’t expecting to be in the top six.
“We were expecting a challenge, we know where we are at, but we also think we can deliver beyond where we are at.
“We should have had a win earlier than we got it, we are building that feel about the group that they belong now, and that can only lead to good things.
“We don’t over think the table. Winning is where it’s at, if you do enough of that, you don’t have to look at the table much.”
Tonight is the first midweek league game of the season. "It’s relentless how quickly the games turn around in the Championship because of how many extra games there are, so we’re used to it, the players are used to it,” Dyche added.
“The physical side we’re pretty pleased with how our group go about it and there’s no reason to doubt they will deliver again on Tuesday.”