Brian McDermott, after 90 minutes of pacing up and down in the home technical area, was honest enough in his assessment and said: "In the first half we were beaten up. We set the team up to play a certain way. We tried to get our two full backs on. You could see what we were trying to do but two soft goals have just seen them back.
"In the second half we had to change the way we play. We had to launch the ball in the second half and it's not how we want to play. We were trying to get a result and right at the end we've had a free kick and we didn't get close enough for it really. We've created chances today but we haven't taken them."
He added: "They were the better side. If you play the way we're playing you have to dominate with the ball and make them change. We had to change. We had to go to a flat three up front. Our players who can play and get on the ball need to be getting on the ball because they've got that licence in the dressing room.
"It was bitterly disappointing today. First half, we cannot let that happen and unfortunately you have to earn the right to play football and we didn't do that today.
"We were having a poor day with the ball and when you're having a poor day with the ball you've got to resort to whatever you have to do to get a result. We knocked a lot of long balls into Matt (Smith), into Varney. It wasn't what you want to watch all the time but it's a results business and we've had a very difficult week to say the least.
"At home we need to find a way. We need to find a formula. We haven't got that yet. away from home we look at home. We have got to do what we have got to do to get a result. That's the business we are in. We've had such a difficult week. I'm looking to see the back of it really."
Sean Dyche saw his Burnley team win yet again on the road. "This was a different type of performance to the one in midweek, but you have to find a way to win a football match," he said.
"Sometimes it's the beauty and sometimes it's the beast and after a great hour, we dug in for the last twenty minutes.
"In the first half we were really, really good and opened them up to create so many chances. We looked like we had that real air of confidence. in the second half we started brightly and Paddy Kenny made a fantastic save from Danny Ings.
"Had it been 3-0, that would have been job done, but they settled and in the last twenty minutes we've had to hang on.
"I would say that was controlled, but of course Tom Heaton deserves massive credit. You have to make big saves in games and the two he made in the second half were as good as goals. I think we have kept him reasonably quite on the whole this season, but when he's needed he has made big, big saves."
Having taken 17 points now from the first eight league games of the season, he added: "It's not that easy to get things to work immediately, but we have galvanised a group of people who want to play for Burnley Football Club and I think that is a massively important thing.
"The fans can see their will to win a football match and it's hard not to gush about them at the minute because they have been terrific. They are delivering every week and that is a fantastic feeling for everyone connected with the club.
"The best feeling you can have is when you look down a tunnel and you have a group of players who are going to give everything to win a game. Where that can take us, we'll see, but for now we are just focusing on the moment and winning matches."