Burnley 0 Arsenal 1


By Burnley FC
April 11 2015

An early goal proved decisive in a tight contest at a windy Turf Moor. Aaron Ramsey's finish into the roof of the net within the first quarter of an hour handed title-chasing Arsenal their eighth consecutive Premier League win.

And despite the best efforts, battling Burnley were unable to find the breakthrough and stayed two points adrift of safety in the league table.


Sean Dyche named an unchanged side for the fourth consecutive game.


Meanwhile, Matt Taylor was in the matchday squad for the first time since August after recovering from an Achilles problem.


Arsène Wenger made no changes to the Arsenal starting line-up following a 4-1 victory over Liverpool last weekend.
Both teams threatened right from the start.


Alexis Sánchez was first to bring a comfortable save out of Tom Heaton with less than two minutes on the clock.


In response, Gunners goalkeeper David Ospina had to race off his line quickly to deny Sam Vokes after the Welshman outpaced Per Mertesacker down the left channel.


Moments later, the ball fell to Sánchez inside the Burnley box, but the Chilean couldn’t keep his shot on target.
However, Arsenal soon took the lead, despite some brave defending by the Clarets.


On a quick counter-attack, Heaton did brilliantly to deny Mesut Özil from a tight angle and two other efforts were blocked before Ramsey turned the ball home from close range on 12 minutes.


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Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: TheLongside.co.uk (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 22:44

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Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 17:02

Teams are in;

Burnley; Heaton, Trippier, Duff, Shackell (c), Mee, Boyd, Arfield, Jones, Barnes, Vokes, Ings.

Subs: Gilks, Keane, Ward, Ulvestad, Jutkiewicz, Taylor, Kightly.

Arsenal; Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud.

Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Chambers, Flamini, Rosicky, Walcott, Welbeck.

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 17:05

Burnley v Arsenal live at the link;



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Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: soapylily (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 17:14

Our bench is interesting.

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 18:27

Thierry has sussed us out there

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 18:32

Clarets a bit sloppy in possession, why all the theatrics Arsenal you spoil yourselves

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 18:37

WTF Sanchez kin cheat(Sm31)

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 18:58

Sorry lads but chances like that have to be put away.

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 19:24

Sean, what was the point of the substitution in the 92nd minute?

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Foreverclaret (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 20:00

Sean that was same old same old, when you gonna change things around a bit?

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Jabberwocky (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 20:08

Think we might see Taylor starting now he's back.

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: BC2 (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 21:41

Only slightly less boring than the Spurs game, at least there was a goal to liven things up, but this PL football is a con trick, overpaid nancy boys continually throwing themselves onto the floor, the sooner we're back playing proper football the better.

Re: Burnley v Arsenal
Posted by: Jabberwocky (IP Logged)
Date: 11/04/2015 21:45

Yup. Derby days against Preston and Rovers, proper footy, the occasional promotion and repeat.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: soapylily (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 01:39

Really disappointing result against a lucky Arsenal side. We are not taking our chances. If we are to burst our way out of a paper bag I would drop Ings and push up Barnes with Taylor/kightly coming in.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: BC2 (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 09:01

If Taylor and Kightly are the answer soapy then we're asking the wrong questions. The teams Dyche has been putting out have been the best he could, there aren't really any options off the bench that will make much difference. The difference now is in the opposition, we're done with the top teams, it gets 'easier', whether it gets easy enough I'm not so sure, but tinkering isn't the answer.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: Jabberwocky (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 10:40

If we keep our heads we will be fine. Yesterday was the first time I saw signs of pressure seep into the team, probably not helped by the results beforehand.

The 'hard' games have gone, but there aren't half some massive ones remaining.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: Jabberwocky (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 10:41

Ooh, that fart smell has gone. Good-o!

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: Brian O'Neil (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 11:24

The hard work has to pay off some time and one way or another it will.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: colinwaldron (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 12:14

Problem is we have scored one goal in our last 6 games; anoher one goal haul from our next 6 games and and we are relegated sadly.

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Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: soapylily (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 14:48

Quote:
BC2
If Taylor and Kightly are the answer soapy then we're asking the wrong questions. The teams Dyche has been putting out have been the best he could, there aren't really any options off the bench that will make much difference. The difference now is in the opposition, we're done with the top teams, it gets 'easier', whether it gets easy enough I'm not so sure, but tinkering isn't the answer.
BC Barnes, who has proved a great centre forward, is being played out of position. I really think at Everton it is time to 'rest' Ings and put Barnes and Vokes up front, if only for the first half.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: BC2 (IP Logged)
Date: 12/04/2015 18:46

They're fair points soapy, Barnes isn't a winger and, imo, Ings is not far off a waste of space at the moment. But the problem, again just imo, is not the players or the positions they're playing in, it's been the strength of the opposition over the last 8 games. In fact though, we've taken 5 points from those 8 games, more than most people me included expected, I'm not sure any other teams/players/formations Dyche could have gone with would have bettered that.

As I said before, I believe our salvation lies in the fixture list, not in tinkering, we just don't have the players who can make a difference.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: fulledgelad (IP Logged)
Date: 13/04/2015 01:20

Ings is very much a marked man.stop Ings and they basically stop Burnley.
we just haven't got any other players that the opposing teams fear.
Simple as that really!

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: ManHug (IP Logged)
Date: 14/04/2015 11:18

Barnes MUST return to the middle for this last six games.

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Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: morninbob (IP Logged)
Date: 14/04/2015 14:13

agreed vokes up top isn't working, either ward or kightly on the left.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: BC2 (IP Logged)
Date: 14/04/2015 17:17

I suspect he'll persevere with Barnes out wide, Kightly is the obvious choice for me in that possy, but for whatever reason he seems to be permanently in the naughty corner.

Re: Burnley 0 Arsenal 1
Posted by: ManHug (IP Logged)
Date: 14/04/2015 17:18

Keira

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