Usually, that would be cause for celebration. But on this occasion, relief might be the operative word.
There will certainly be a mixture of feelings for Vincent Kompany, who will be equally as proud of his side’s character and resilience as he will be frustrated and angry at the quite shambolic defending we witnessed in the first-half.
At stages of this game, perhaps for a good hour or so, you got the nagging feeling this could quite easily go down as one of Burnley’s worst performances of the season. Given what we’ve already witnessed, that’s saying something.
The display was error-strewn, misplaced pass after misplaced pass was going awry and, had Fulham gone 3-0 up as they had long threatened to do, the home crowd could well have turned.
The dissension had already been bubbling away at half-time, with boos greeting Burnley’s woeful first 45 minutes.
But the Clarets somehow managed to turn things around and salvage themselves a point which, in the grand scheme of things, does little for their survival hopes. This was billed as a must-win game after all.
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