Cardiff City 2 Burnley 2


By Burnley FC
November 28 2015

Two goals in the final five minutes capped a stunning fightback from the Clarets in the Welsh capital. Rouwen Hennings' first goal for the club in the 85th minute set up a grandstand finish after goals in each half from Aron Gunnarsson and Sean Morrison had given Burnley a mountain to climb.

The Clarets had felt hard done by at that stage after Matthew Connolly’s blatant hand ball in the penalty area to deny George Boyd, with the score still 0-0, incredibly went unpunished.

So perhaps there was an element of justice when Connolly inadvertently turned Michael Keane’s misdirected stoppage time header past his own goalkeeper to salvage a point.

And with Dean Marney returning to action for the first time in nine months, there were plenty of positives to take for Sean Dyche and his players.

Dyche chose to hand Chris Long a full debut for the Clarets, replacing Hennings in the starting line-up. 


But it was the hosts who started brightly and forced two smarts out of Tom Heaton in the opening 15 minutes.

First, former Claret Peter Whittingham found Kenwyne Jones with a testing delivery, but the striker’s glancing header was tipped wide by the Burnley captain.

Heaton also had to come to the Clarets rescue moments later, again tipping over from a powerful header.

The Bluebirds signed Tony Watt on loan from Charlton Athletic earlier in the week, and the striker impressed his new fans with a long solo run that ended with a dragged effort wide.

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Alfie
28/11/2015 17:37
Well well well,looking down and out with five minutes to go we bang two goals in and come away with a point ..Aanother mediocre display by all accounts,but we do have that never say die attitude which is keeping us up there.. I would have settled for a point before the game started so I'm happy enough.

BC2
28/11/2015 21:03
Worst performance of the season according to Jamie Hoyland, something's not right and Sean doesn't seem able to put it right.

fred dibnah
28/11/2015 21:10
Looks like we had a couple of handball penalty shouts. : [www.skysports.com]

The goals we conceded are a bit worrying , very basic crosses and headers in the box that should have been defended with relative ease.

Seems like a good comeback though. Das Boot took his goal well, hopefully that'll give him some confidence to kick on.

Alfie
28/11/2015 21:12
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BC2
Worst performance of the season according to Jamie Hoyland, something's not right and Sean doesn't seem able to put it right.

What do you think is going wrong BC ? Sean needs to get agrip then and fix it fast..

vinnicombe
28/11/2015 21:16
Worst performance of the season and still picked up a point away from home? Excellent.

Shanghaiclaret
28/11/2015 21:39
Good to see:

Hennings scoring. Hopefully he can get some confidence from that.
Barney playing. Hopefully he will be starting soon.
Boyd back. Looks like his best game of the season. Lets hope it is the start of some consistency.

Bad to see:
Another draw. I know we rescued a point at the end but draws are killing us. Maybe a loss would be the point at which we sorted ourselves out.

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vinnicombe
28/11/2015 23:25
I'd have took a point before the game.
Always said Burnley fans love a moan. Some people seem to revel in us not winning every game at this level. Amusing really.

fulledgelad
29/11/2015 01:11
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I know we rescued a point at the end but draws are killing us

We drew 15 games the last time we got promoted,that didn't kill us because it gave us 15 points rather than minus 15 points.

fulledgelad
29/11/2015 01:16
Quote:
Worst performance of the season according to Jamie Hoyland, something's not right and Sean doesn't seem able to put it right.

Maybe it's because the players want to play football but the manager won't give them the freedom..??

Just a thought

BC2
29/11/2015 09:36
Quote:
Alfie
Quote:
BC2
Worst performance of the season according to Jamie Hoyland, something's not right and Sean doesn't seem able to put it right.

What do you think is going wrong BC ? Sean needs to get agrip then and fix it fast..

From what I've seen Alfie we're simply not as good a team as we were two years ago, most likely because Derek isn't as good as Trippier, Keane isn't as good as Shackell, we miss Marney in midfield, Vokes seems lost without Ings alongside him, Boyd and Arfield out wide aren't as effective as Kightly and Arfield were two years ago and there isn't the option yet to use Barnes either. Not a lot Sean can do about it really apart from tinkering round the edges, we are what we are, a play-off team imo.

Maybe we've been spoilt these last two years, we don't have any automatic right to be top two in this league, nowt wrong with a club like ours being top 6 after having to sell players like Ings, Trippier and Shackell, they were never going to be easy to replace.

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