Opinion: Burnley’s never-ending nightmare takes another demoralising turn at Crystal Palace
In all seriousness, the nightmare just won’t end, will it?
We thought the Arsenal mauling was bad, and boy it was, but in many ways this was worse. Everything just continues to go wrong.
The trip to Selhurst Park was rightly billed as a must-win game, or a crucial fixture at least in Burnley’s fading survival bid. Even Vincent Kompany didn’t try to play down its significance.
Many, if not all of the Clarets that made the trip down to South London will have been doing so in hope rather than expectation. That tends to be the case when your team has only won a measly three games out of 25, or 26 as it now is.
We weren’t expecting much, but once again what was served up fell way, way below expectations.
Well beaten
You don’t need statistics to tell you how this game played out, your eyes will do that. But the statistics make for grim reading: Crystal Palace’s Expected Goals (xG) was 2.50 compared to Burnley’s pitiful 0.09. They even managed 0.27 against Arsenal last week.
Burnley’s only real spells of pressure came towards the end of proceedings, when the game was already dead and buried. Even then, they failed to muster a shot on target.
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