Verdict on Burnley's 1-0 defeat to Everton

Burnley FC writer Matt Scrafton gives his verdict on the 1-0 defeat to Everton at Goodison Park.

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00:00 Hi, just here at Stanley Park after Burnley's 1-0 defeat to Everton. Hard not to feel really

00:07 disheartened and disappointed after that. It was a game that was rightly Builders must

00:12 win, Vincent Company's men. After only picking up that 1-1 draw against Wolves mid-week,

00:17 which again felt like a missed opportunity, they had to come here to a direct mediation

00:21 rival and get their win to reduce the gap. It's not worked out that way and it's now

00:27 looking not impossible but very, very difficult to put up a fight against relegation now.

00:34 In terms of the overall game, the performance was OK. It wasn't a poor performance per se,

00:40 it was OK, it was fine, but we deserve a draw. But as I said, that wouldn't be good enough

00:47 anyway. We need wins at this part of the season, as I say, especially against a direct rival.

00:53 They did come through early pressure from Everton. They came out with a box draft with

00:56 the home fans and the atmosphere. They came through that, they picked up some momentum,

01:02 grew into the game, had some chances, tried a tail block. They thought, OK, get into half-time,

01:07 0-0 and build from there. But as we've seen so often this season, Burnley shoot themselves

01:14 in the foot, it's the last kick of the game really, the last kick of the first half. Mewich

01:18 is far too casual, just with the ball at his feet. Cavendown just chases him down, blocks

01:26 his clearance, goes and looks over and into the back of the empty net, which again seems

01:30 to sum up Burnley's season. In the second half, there wasn't really a response there,

01:35 not the response we needed. Instead, they got a red card, another one, at the seventh

01:40 of the season. This time, Dierot's Shea, a big blatant foul on Dwight McNeil. That's

01:48 pretty far out from goal. Some of the company argued it wasn't a clear goalscoring opportunity,

01:52 but it was a careless piece of defending from her Shea in the first place to miscontrol

01:57 the ball, which allowed McNeil to pounce on it and would have been through on goal. From

02:04 that, the Carrots never really got going. They had a bit of pressure here and there,

02:09 but you never felt like Burnley were going to get right into it. It's a shame really,

02:12 because they were so cagey, the crowd were so anxious. They were there to be got at,

02:17 but Burnley just couldn't put anything together. Six games left, I think it's Brighton at home

02:23 next. It's difficult to see where the Carrots go from here.

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