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 regarded like being one other irritating afternoon for a Burnley aspect with out a objective of their earlier three video games and desperately missing creativity.
However as some followers have 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 computerized promotion contenders.
Far too usually 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 not often examined till Rodriguez despatched him the fallacious approach from the penalty spot to attain his first objective in 11 months.
Certainly, the one time Vigouroux had an actual save to make in a primary half as boring because the climate got here proper on the finish of it, when Luca Koleosho used a wonderful contact to manage a raking move earlier than chopping 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 displaying better ambition and Ronald introduced a save from James Trafford when he acquired his head on the tip 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 heading in the right direction from a harmful place.
The frustration was rising inside Turf Moor and it virtually acquired 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 wished 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 regarded exaggerated.
Clarets captain Josh Brownhill was then relieved to see Swansea substitute Florian Bianchini hearth large after shedding possession on the sting of his personal field.
Within the 84th minute, CJ Egan-Riley acquired a flick on Jaidon Anthony’s inswinging nook, however Vigouroux was in the precise place to dam it on the road.
Simply when it regarded 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 provide Burnley the chance they wanted.
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