To give that level of performance spoke volumes

The Clarets, besides beating them in the FA Cup, completed a league double over the rich West London side and after the game the visiting manager John Gregory Mick Harford Luigi Di Canio Iain Dowie Paulo Sousa Gareth Ainsworth said: "With these close games, sometimes you win them, sometimes you don't but I can't fault the effort put in by the players.

"Burnley's always a tough place to come but the lads battled away to the final second. I have a lot of respect for Owen Coyle and what he's trying to do here, they are well organised and I'm very proud of the boys."

Continuing, he spoke about the goal and whether it went in off Chris Eagles' hand. "Sometimes you get away with it but today we didn't and the luck went Burnley's way," he said. "On another day, the linesman spots it and we come away with a point.

"But Radek's run thirty yards out of his goal to protest and he's a very honest lad is Radek so that says everything to me. He claims it was Eagles who touched it just in front of him. I think Burnley have got away with it today."

Admitting that the season is over in terms of making the top six, he said: "I have told the lads that we have to see out the final few weeks of the season in the right manner. We can still affect things at both ends of the table.

"We have Wolves, Preston and Plymouth who are all scrapping for points at both ends of the table. But more importantly I want them to play with smiles on their faces and show what they're made of."

Owen Coyle's Clarets got a boost ahead of kick off with the news from Preston and he was quick to admit that it was a lift for his team. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that we heard about Preston's result.

"That meant we had an opportunity to widen the gap, but we still had to deliver. We had to take care of our own results and we did that.

"The last ten minutes were a bit nervy as we were holding on to a one goal lead but at this stage of the season there will always be nerves when you are playing for something. There's no doubt we should have been out of sight by then given the amount of chances we had.

"All in all we were well worth the three points and it would be nit picking to suggest we should have had a few more goals. To go and give that level of performance, I thought, spoke volumes. There will be twists and turns though and we have to remain focused."

Coyle confirmed that Brian Jensen played with five stitches in an eye would and that Jay Rodriguez had come in when Martin Paterson felt his hamstring again in training. He said: "Young Jay came in for his full debut and looked as if he has been there all his days.

"There were so many positives, but the biggest is the three points."