Before scoring Flemming had twice been unable to capitalise on opportunities to put the Clarets ahead.<\/p>\n
The Dutch forward was unfortunate with a shot that struck Fulham defender Calvin Bassey on the arm but arguably should have done better with a close-range header that was straight at home goalkeeper Bernd Leno.<\/p>\n
When he did register his eighth goal of the campaign, it came during a period in which the visitors looked comfortable in the game.<\/p>\n
However, Burnley’s defensive fragilities came back to bite them.<\/p>\n
The Clarets have now kept just one clean sheet in their past 42 top-flight matches on their travels and on this evidence, it is easy to understand why.<\/p>\n
King’s goal arrived directly from a Dubravka error, while Wilson – a player known for his shooting ability on his left-foot – was allowed to drift inside and unload an effort without a challenge being made by three retreating Burnley defenders.<\/p>\n
And to compound matters, Laurent’s dismissal for a desperate shove on Jimenez as he faced up Dubravka, was a result of the former Wolves striker being allowed to run through a huge void in the middle of the Burnley back four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before scoring Flemming had twice been unable to capitalise on opportunities to put the Clarets ahead. The Dutch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}