Burnley became the first team in top-flight history to lose their first six home fixtures of a season as Crystal Palace earned a 2-0 win at Turf Moor.
Jeffrey Schlupp put Palace ahead in the 22nd minute and Tyrick Mitchell’s second goal for his boyhood club sealed the win in added time as Burnley suffered a club-record eighth consecutive top-flight home defeat. This run dates back to the final two games of the 2021-22 campaign as they were relegated.
A similar fate will await if Vincent Kompany cannot quickly turn things around as his players again could not find any cutting edge – now without a goal in six of their 11 Premier League matches.
It was not for lack of trying – Burnley had 67 per cent possession and 16 shots to Palace’s four – but it was the visiting fans singing loudly at the final whistle as Palace recovered from back-to-back defeats to move into the top half of the table.
Turf Moor was an almost impenetrable fortress during last season’s promotion charge as Kompany’s side won 16 and lost only one of 23 home games and, even when suffering relegation in 2021-22, Burnley lost only eight home league games all season. So far this season there have been no home comforts at all.
Burnley started brightly, with Vitinho winning a corner inside the opening 20 seconds before Zeki Amdouni headed a Johann Berg Gudmundsson ball wide, then narrowly missed the head of Jay Rodriguez – making his first league start of the season – with a cross of his own.
The Clarets were playing some lovely flowing football but without the end product they so badly need and they were punished as one of the best halves of football Burnley have produced this season nevertheless ended with Kompany’s side trailing.
Palace had barely been seen as an
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