• 8 months ago
Burnley boss Vincent Kompany was disappointed with the opening goal conceded at Turf Moor but was pleased with his sides effort despite going down to another home defeat in the Premier League.
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00:00 Especially after the result and performance against Crystal Palace last week, I did think
00:07 we put in the energy that we needed to put into this game. We created, I think, I could
00:14 be wrong, but more shots and chances than in any of the games we've played in the Premier
00:18 League so far this season. So the energy was there.
00:21 And even after conceding a goal, it's such an unfortunate goal, we carried on. But the
00:34 frustration is something that has to substitute, like I always say, it has to substitute into
00:40 something well, you know, the next game then. But what we can't drop is the energy levels
00:44 we had today.
00:45 It's the type of league that will punish you on these type of moments. It can be the reason
00:55 why you concede or it can be the reason why you don't score. That's just part of operating
01:00 at this level. You give yourself a little bit more of the right to talk about it when
01:07 you have a performance like today. But in the end, the disappointment is that you can't
01:13 capitalise on something that had so many positive elements.
01:17 So I want you to note how calm and rational I am about this. So in the context of this
01:25 game, you can allow or disallow this goal and have kind of a 50/50 divide on people
01:31 that say, "Well, yeah, well, in England, what have you got to do when the ball is to the
01:34 back stick? You've got to jump, right?" And he jumped earlier than his full-back. And
01:38 you've got another part that will say, "Yeah, probably, but he didn't make contact with
01:41 the ball." So 50/50. And then you follow the on-field decision.
01:45 But then if you zoom out a little bit and you put this goal against the goal we conceded
01:50 against Luton, because we're talking about impeding a player whilst you're not making
01:57 contact with the ball. That's exactly what happened in the Luton game in reverse. So
02:01 in that moment, you don't give a foul. In this moment, you do give a foul. And a key
02:05 deciding factor. And that side of it is difficult to handle this season.
02:12 Simple things as well. When you talk about consistency, the first yellow card of Dario
02:16 O'Shea, I don't actually have an issue with it because it's very clear in the rules that
02:20 this is a yellow card. But then when it happens five minutes later, right in front of the
02:25 dugout and nothing is done about it, then I'm kind of, "OK, do I add this to the pile
02:31 of so many decisions we struggle to understand?" And it keeps going on whether it's the fouls
02:38 and the soft yellow cards that was given against us against Aston Villa, who cost us a red
02:42 card. The soft penalty against Aston Villa. And you look at the yellow card offences today
02:46 and you look at the penalty on Odebere.
02:52 Right now, because you asked me about a goal-scoring moment, in the bigger context it's difficult
02:58 to accept. But in reality what I will do as soon as this press conference is finished
03:03 is not moan about this for one second and focus on what I can do with my players. We're
03:09 the ones who missed the chances, except for that one that we scored.

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