You blew it

[yorkyclaret]

Well, probably not me you are asking but I thought it's not a black white thing. We let you have lots of the ball, but that's just the way we play, you created very little in the way of chances, I can't remember a save in the second half. Had you scored we would have changed our gameplan (like at Bolton last week) we tend to make teams look good but we're not where we are for nothing. Really couldn't see you scoring plenty of ball but no real pressure.

[norvenmunky]

Very fair appraisal,Burnley do stand off and see what the opposition has got,and to be fair it hasn't done us any harm thus far.

[Saxo]

Very fair appraisal,Burnley do stand off and see what the opposition has got,and to be fair it hasn't done us any harm thus far.

That's better munky, everyone is being very fair on this thread, no need to act the prat.

Best of luck Burnley for the run in, you've won my respect, esp Mr dyche. A very intelligent manager.

[Despair]

Eh! All of a sudden you respect them?
The 'winds of change' !
They simply do well what they do best, and much of this is down to their manager. Just as it was prior to us playing them.
The game? We were undone by a very unfortunate conceded penalty, yes Duffy took too long to address the ball, but he had good possession of it at the time. It was down to Boyd putting his foot in at the last minute, not for the ball, but for contact. He was grinning ear to ear when the ref signalled.
Our play on the whole was not too bad, but what was woeful was the delivery from both open play and set piece! Why is it that for what must have been 90% of them they failed to lift the ball and beat the first man???
We were given the chance and as said in the title 'blew it'.
IF we had scored in the 15/20 mins of dominance I disagree that they would have had it them to change tack and come onto us. For me in that period they looked fairly nervy, maybe because of the 'derby factor'.

[robinrover]

Well munkey I would like to know where the long ball was
we played well but ultimately deserved to lose Burnley defended in numbers and didn't give us a way through
they will go up and deserve to
their rope a dope tactics work a treat in this league and as much as I can't stand you lot I have to applaud you
a beautifully run football club something we once were.

[Davhor]

[quote="Despair"]Eh! All of a sudden you respect them?
The 'winds of change' !
They simply do well what they do best, and much of this is down to their manager. Just as it was prior to us playing them.
The game? We were undone by a very unfortunate conceded penalty, yes Duffy took too long to address the ball, but he had good possession of it at the time. It was down to Boyd putting his foot in at the last minute, not for the ball, but for contact. He was grinning ear to ear when the ref signalled.
Our play on the whole was not too bad, but what was woeful was the delivery from both open play and set piece! Why is it that for what must have been 90% of them they failed to lift the ball and beat the first man???
We were given the chance and as said in the title 'blew it'.
IF we had scored in the 15/20 mins of dominance I disagree that they would have had it them to change tack and come onto us. For me in that period they looked fairly nervy, maybe becaus

[Saxo]

I think Lambert got it wrong playing Gomez personally. I think when it was obvious he was having no joy he should have brought on brown earlier and gone more direct. He's far more suited a derby battle.

[Howie5o]

Gomez was awful.Every ball he put into the box didnt clear the first defender.Again Graham i thought was impressive but as he plays with his back to the goal(his hold up play has surprised me)he really needs someone alongside him who knows where the net is.

For all our possession and pressing we never really looked like we were going to score.

[seventwo]

I think Lambert got it wrong playing Gomez personally. I think when it was obvious he was having no joy he should have brought on brown earlier and gone more direct. He's far more suited a derby battle.

Had it been a derby battle we would have had a better chance.

It never was because Burnley were so organised they controlled the game from start to finish using the same tactics that have done well all season. If we had scored they would have changed as they did against Bolton.

They gave us sufficient room to flatter to deceive but we never had the quality to trouble them and they knew it.

[AucklandRover]

I think David Dunn should have been brought on for the final quarter.