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He said today: "After an inauspicious start I hope we are getting into a rhythm but Burnley, as the table shows, are a good team and well capable of getting points out of us. A home game does not guarantee anything.
"The last thing we want to do at this stage is to think we have found some kind of formula," he said. "Every kind of team presents a different kind of test, and this will be different from the last week."
Owen Coyle is aware just how tough a game it will be tomorrow but goes there knowing his side are full of confidence brought about by the run of nine league and cup games without defeat.
"This is probably, at this time, the most difficult fixture in the Championship," he said. "Reading are absolutely flying and scoring a host of goals at home. They went to Wolves in midweek, a club that were carrying all before them, and won 3-0, so that shows the enormity of the task.
"Having said that, we are on a good run of form and the lads have shown, even when they are not playing at the top of their game, they are prepared to knuckle down and get results. We know we can contribute to the game and we have players who can hurt the opposition, so that's what we'll look to do. We are certainly not going there to shut up shop; we're going there for a victory."
Looking back to September Coyle added: "We probably feel a little hard done by because we should have won at Swansea as well. That was the only disappointment in a fantastic month but we can't affect that now.
"All we can affect is what is in front of us and we have a very, very difficult task on Saturday, going to a team that is flying. But it is a game we should be looking forward to because we are capable of going to these stadiums and earning results."
Just now, players such as Robbie Blake and Chris Eagles are not getting a place in the side and are having to settle for the subs bench, but Coyle wants them to grab their chance when it comes.
He said: "I have to say it is difficult for Chris, Robbie and the rest of the lads who are not starting. Nothing is easy about picking teams and leaving players out, but it's an integral part of the job and if people are doing well, then they stay in.
"I don't expect players to be singing from the rooftops when they are sitting games out, but things change very quickly and I have said to them that when their chance comes, they have to take it. It will come because that's the nature of the game."
On Eagles, he said: In every game Chris has come on, if he has not scored, he has created opportunities, but we knew we had a quality player. He knows himself he is not the finished article and has a lot to learn, as have all the lads.
"Following his red card, he was able to look at the games and he knew because the lads were playing well that he would have to work to get back in. That's what he is doing and I think, in a bizarre sort of way, because of the fact he had to miss those games, I have a better player now in Chris Eagles, and I have no doubt he will get better.
The difficulty is I can only pick eleven players and, at the moment, there are more than eleven deserving of a starting place."