Burnley have looked good in spells this season, but a run of four defeats in five league games left them desperate for three points against the side who beat them to the Championship title on goal difference last season.<\/p>\n
Parker not only made three changes from the 2-1 defeat at Villa Park, but also switched to a back four for the first time this term – a move that paid off as his team kept Leeds at bay after half-time to claim victory.<\/p>\n
Burnley’s first-half opener was chiefly down to Walker’s magnificent inswinging delivery into Ugochukwu, who was left with the simple task of guiding the ball inside Karl Darlow’s right-hand post from close range.<\/p>\n
But a number of Burnley players looked much more comfortable in Parker’s new system, including 21-year-old Ugochukwu and holding midfielders Josh Cullen and Florentino, whose distribution was excellent throughout.<\/p>\n
The home side failed to register an attempt between Ugochukwu’s opener and Tchaouna’s screamer, but a second clean sheet of the season was very much a step in the right direction for a side who conceded only 16 times in the Championship last term.<\/p>\n
The hard-fought win lifts Burnley above Nottingham Forest and out of the bottom three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnley have looked good in spells this season, but a run of four defeats in five league games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-224102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}