Jay Rodriguez scored a stoppage-time penalty as Burnley snatched a 1-0 victory over Swansea to finish a four-game winless run.
For 90 minutes it had seemed like being one other irritating afternoon for a Burnley aspect with no purpose of their earlier three video games and desperately missing creativity.
However as some followers had been heading for the exits, Matt Grimes dealt with within the penalty space whereas battling Burnley substitutes Rodriguez and Hannibal for the ball and, after a pause, referee David Webb pointed to the spot.
The win permits Burnley to shut the hole to the highest two to 4 factors, though boss Scott Parker will know this was not the efficiency of automated promotion contenders.
Far too typically within the match Burnley – who had scored solely eight objectives of their final 12 league video games earlier than this – settled for pictures from exterior the field, and it had been Swansea who had gone nearer when Liam Cullen’s second-half header was cleared off the road.
Lawrence Vigouroux – the 30-year-old goalkeeper who spent final season at Turf Moor however by no means made an look for the Clarets – was hardly ever examined till Rodriguez despatched him the flawed method from the penalty spot to attain his first purpose in 11 months.
Certainly, the one time Vigouroux had an actual save to make in a primary half as uninteresting because the climate got here proper on the finish of it, when Luca Koleosho used a good looking contact to manage a raking cross earlier than reducing inside Josh Key, seeing his highly effective shot palmed away.
Because the half-time whistle loomed, Josh Cullen, already booked for bringing down Ronald, caught Zan Vipotnik late, however referee Webb ignored the screams from the Swansea bench.
The guests started the second half exhibiting higher ambition and Ronald introduced a save from James Trafford when he bought his head on the top of Key’s cross within the fiftieth minute.
Jay Rodriguez was Burnley’s match-winner
On the different finish, Burnley’s Connor Roberts, a Swansea academy product, centred the ball for Jeremy Sarmiento, however the Brighton loanee couldn’t get his shot on track from a harmful place.
The frustration was rising inside Turf Moor and it virtually bought a lot worse within the sixty fourth minute when the hosts wanted Maxime Esteve to clear Swansea substitute Cullen’s header off the road after Key was allowed an excessive amount of time to cross.
Burnley needed a penalty within the seventieth minute when Esteve, stepping out of defence in a bid to make one thing occur, tumbled within the field as he handed Key, however his fall seemed exaggerated.
Clarets captain Josh Brownhill was then relieved to see Swansea substitute Florian Bianchini fireplace huge after shedding possession on the sting of his personal field.
Within the 84th minute, CJ Egan-Riley bought a flick on Jaidon Anthony’s inswinging nook, however Vigouroux was in the suitable place to dam it on the road.
Simply when it seemed as if their final probability had gone, Bashir Humphreys despatched in a cross from the left and, as Swansea struggled to cope with it, the ball struck the raised arm of Grimes to offer Burnley the chance they wanted.
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