Burnley boss Scott Parker accused his players of lacking belief and rolling over following a \u201cpowderpuff\u201d display in a limp 2-0 Premier League defeat at Brighton.<\/p>\n
The second-bottom Clarets slipped to an 11th successive top-flight game without victory after Seagulls pair Georginio Rutter and Yasin Ayari struck either side of half-time.<\/p>\n
Parker, who believes he retains the support of his club\u2019s owners, admits his side are certain to suffer relegation if they do not improve.<\/p>\n
Despite collecting just two points from a possible 33 since October, Burnley remain only six points below 17th-placed Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lacked belief and I didn\u2019t feel for one second that it was a team or group that ever believed they could come here and get a result really,\u201d said Parker.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can lose football matches but there are ways of losing and I just felt we looked at times powderpuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were never in the game. We didn\u2019t deserve anything from the game just from our general approach and our general body language and the way we went about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe (winless) run is the run. But you need to bring a certain something about you as a group.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday what concerns me, what angers me, frustrates me, and makes me hugely disappointed was we didn\u2019t show that. We just rolled over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you perform like we did today, you ain\u2019t collecting enough points to stay in this division, no chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnley wing-back Lucas Pires threatened an equaliser following Rutter\u2019s 29th-minute opener before substitute Loum Tchaouna saw a header turned on to the crossbar by Ferdi Kadioglu after Ayari doubled Brighton\u2019s lead early in the second half.<\/p>\n
But the Clarets created little for most of the contest and were comfortably second best on a bitterly-cold afternoon at the Amex Stadium.<\/p>\n
Asked about his future, Parker, who led Burnley to promotion last term, said: \u201cThat\u2019s out of my hands. I have the utmost support from ownership, from everyone at the football club.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m fully committed and I feel like everyone at the football club is as well. We\u2019re all hurting, we\u2019re all disappointed but we\u2019ll keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brighton soared to eighth place in the table by snapping a six-match winless run.<\/p>\n
The Seagulls began the day in 14th position after picking up only three points from 18 available during December.<\/p>\n
Albion head coach Fabian Hurzeler said: \u201cThe run wasn\u2019t great but we always stuck together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had good performances in this run, we had some not so good performances. But overall I think the effort from the players, the effort from the staff, how we work together, it\u2019s always good, it\u2019s always like we want to have it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always emphasis that when you work hard at one point you get what you deserve and that\u2019s what we have to keep doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good game, not a great game, we controlled the game. We kept a clean sheet, we created chances, we could score more goals, but overall we are pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burnley boss Scott Parker accused his players of lacking belief and rolling over following a \u201cpowderpuff\u201d display in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-387278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}