When this weekend is over Burnley will likely be among the bottom three teams in the league.<\/p>\n
Wins over Sunderland, Leeds and Wolves showed they are capable of beating fellow promoted sides or relegation-threatened teams on their day, but questions remain about their underlying quality, particularly in both boxes, given their other results.<\/p>\n
Burnley conceded late goals against Manchester United and Liverpool earlier in the season but were well beaten on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Chelsea dominated after Burnley failed to capitalise on a bright start in front of their own fans.<\/p>\n
Anthony was too ponderous when presented with chances to shoot and saw two efforts blocked, while crosses failed to find their mark and Flemming blazed his only chance over.<\/p>\n
It was a familiar story for Burnley, who played well at West Ham before the international break only to succumb to set-piece goals.<\/p>\n
Flemming had been on a run of three goals in four matches beforehand, but there appears to be a lack of firepower at the Lancashire club.<\/p>\n
That lack of quality may ultimately mean Burnley are relegated again despite their best efforts under manager Scott Parker.<\/p>\n
Burnley had a few penalty shouts, including when Chalobah placed his hand on the ball after Sanchez passed it to him following a restart, then passed it back to Sanchez.<\/p>\n
Parker said: “At the time I didn’t even notice. I have just seen it back.<\/p>\n
“It does look like a penalty. I remember one last year being given – Tyrone Mings. The ball’s live – keeper has rolled it. You could tell by his next action that the ball’s live.<\/p>\n
“I’m not sitting here being critical, but I suppose that is why we got VAR. I don’t know whether they looked at it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When this weekend is over Burnley will likely be among the bottom three teams in the league. Wins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-153964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}