A furious Scott Parker accused his Burnley players of falling well short of the required standard during their dismal defeat to Sunderland.
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Now 11 points adrift of safety, Parker’s side failed to produce a single shot on target as the visitors were thoroughly outclassed by a side that finished 24 points behind them in the Championship last season.
“I didn't see it coming, certainly off the back of the games we've come out of,” a despondent Parker said afterwards.
“Maybe it's easy to bring a certain level of performance and a certain level against Man United at home, Liverpool away and Tottenham at home.
“We just fell way, way short tonight of just the core hard basics of what you need to bring to a game and hence why we come out with never really looking like we were ever going to lay a glove on Sunderland.”
Parker was similarly emphatic in his criticism of Burnley’s 2-0 defeat at Brighton a few weeks ago - but this display was just as bad, if not worse.
Parker looks on during Burnley's miserable defeat to Sunderland (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)placeholder image
Parker looks on during Burnley's miserable defeat to Sunderland (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)
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“It's exactly the same really,” he added. “We're sitting in the same position to be quite honest with you.
“I just felt the game tonight, there's nothing in the game at 0-0. You come into a tough place, there's nothing in the game, real first attack, it's a deflected goal.
“After that, nothing really in the game, they score again and we give ourselves a mountain to climb. Get a control in the game but it didn't look like we remotely wanted to score a goal tonight.
“Had some nice bits, playing around them, keeping the ball, looking really pretty. The cold hard facts are you need to score goals or at least you need to have an intent about it to score goals.
“I thought overall, like I said, just our general intent about us tonight was way short. Every phase of our game in that sense was poor, set plays really poor.
“Just that real intent and that desire in certain moments, we get into nice areas but it's like as if we were looking for the perfect situation, didn't really get any shots off and just showed a poor side of us tonight.”
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