Sam Allardyce

I think that after that, I think two very...

simple goals gifted to Burnley.

I think that the first one in particular was just a straightforward ball and Michael Keane and Ashley Williams should have easily dealt with it.

It was just a simple ball behind and they didn't.

So that lifted Burnley's spirits.

Really in the first half it should have been, I think, with all the chances that we created, and these were very, very good chances, we didn't get two up.

because we're struggling a bit away from home, then you don't get that too when you're in that position, and I think then, and then even though we didn't perform to that level in the second half, Gylfi, you know, brilliantly, brilliantly got himself in the position to score, and that then, that then gets us back in front, and you miss that, and then a simple corner we didn't defend properly, and then,

When Burnley are here and haven't won in 11 football matches, I said to the players, you know, this is Burnley that are struggling worse than we are.

We're struggling away from home, not at home.

Burnley have struggled in the last 11 games to win one.

So you can imagine how tense they are feeling, but we have gifted the game to Burnley.

For me, let them...

We put ourselves under more pressure and gave Burnley a win that we could have avoided.

Because our decision-making wasn't good enough in what we did and what we tried to do.

In other words, Burnley played the ball better...

than we did when they were in possession, and our possession went back to Burnley and their possession caused us a few problems, and I think that we knew exactly what Burnley do and do it exceptionally well.

It's always tough here, but we were coping with it.

When the second half came around and they played forward even quicker, we knew we were going to have to deal with that because we said that for the last two days.

Because when the ball came to us, we didn't deal with the right pass at the right time, we didn't make the right clearance in the right area, we allowed Burnley to build that pressure upon us.

But like I said, we coped in the end, got back in the game,