Josh Cullen and Jaidon Anthony were on target as Burnley beat Sunderland in a battle of two newly-promoted sides at Turf Moor.<\/p>\n
Clarets skipper Cullen scored the first after collecting the ball on the edge of the box following a clever flick from Anthony, curling a low shot into the far corner two minutes after half-time.<\/p>\n
Anthony then raced onto Cullen’s pass and rounded the goalkeeper to double the hosts’ lead and make sure of the win late on.<\/p>\n
After a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham in last weekend’s opening game of the Premier League season, Scott Parker’s side have their first points on the board.<\/p>\n
Burnley thought they had gone in front in the first half when Lyle Foster pounced on a mix-up in the Sunderland defence and finished smartly – but the goal was ruled out with Foster adjudged to have fouled Jenson Seelt in the build-up.<\/p>\n
While the home side enjoyed the territorial advantage for much of the first period, Sunderland had the better chances.<\/p>\n
Eliezer Mayenda’s tame effort from six yard out pushed away by Burnley keeper Martin Dubravka after Dan Ballard’s header back across goal – the defender’s last action before he was forced off with an injury – before Chemsdine Talbi clipped a shot wide.<\/p>\n
Burnley’s best opportunity came with the last action of the first half when Anthony nodded wide from Hannibal Mejbri’s cross.<\/p>\n
There was more life to the Clarets approach in the second half, and following Cullen’s cool finish they were pushing for a second before an issue with the floodlights caused a delay and halted their momentum.<\/p>\n
Sunderland pressed for an equaliser in the closing stages but without creating a chance of note and were then undone by an incisive Burnley counter-attack.<\/p>\n
Cullen whipped the ball through to Anthony and he sprinted clear to score the second and ensure a winning start at home for the Clarets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Cullen and Jaidon Anthony were on target as Burnley beat Sunderland in a battle of two newly-promoted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-105549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}