Burnley and Preston threw the kitchen sink at each other as they produced one of the close football results of the weekend in the Championship. Taylor Harwood-Bellis opened the scoring in the 10th minute before Jordan Storey equalized in the 15th minute. Vincent Kompany and his Burnley side maybe shaded the game but will be happy that they are now unbeaten in their last six games.
Managers Reaction
Preston’s Ryan Lowe: “We’ve been up against a fantastic outfit tonight, but we’ve ended up limiting them to minimal chances. I don’t think they really hurt us that much. With a bit more quality at the top end, we can do so much better. When you look at Burnley, they’ve got the resources and some real quality players, so I’ll take a point, it could be an important one. Both teams tried to win the game in different ways, but as far as we were concerned I just thought maybe we lacked that bit of a cutting edge. It certainly wasn’t for the want of trying. We got some fantastic balls into their box, but you have to get someone on the end of them. As a group, we’re still learning massively, especially out of possession. We tried to win it, but it’s not quite happened for us.”
Burnley’s Vincent Kompany: “There’s still a lot more to come from us. It was a derby game away from home so I think it’s a point gained, but we deserved to win. In the first half, we created a lot of chances, and if we’d taken a few more we could have finished the game. We started forcing it a bit too much in the second half, though, and don’t forget Preston has got five clean sheets so far this season.”
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