Henning Berg had seen his team come within minutes of winning the game but admitted on television after the game that he thought a draw was a fair result.
He said after the game: "When you are 1-0 up and it is the 89th minute you would like to win the game, and I think on the 2nd half performance we could have easily have done that.
"In the first half they were the better team. We defended fantastically well in our own box which we had to do to stay in the game, we were put under a lot of pressure.
"I think we corrected that in the second half and also when Josh (King) came on he gave us more offensive options, both to take people on and to play. I think he made a good impact.
"With the second half if we had won the game I don't there'd have been too many complaints. We got away with it in the first half, but in the second half we could have won it and were closest to winning.
"I think it was just one free kick too many, we have to learn to stop giving away free kicks in those areas. Stay with the runner, don't foul him, but they had them so many times that we were under pressure, we defended them fantastically well all through the game but this was just one too many.
"It wasn't to be today so we have to learn what we did today and look at how we defended so well throughout the game."
Sean Dyche was, in the main, pleased with his team today. Speaking about the first 45 minutes, he said: "In the first half I thought we were very dominant on every level, the physicality of the side, the organisation and what I was most pleased with and was important was our play, the quality of it.
"Not just the quality, you want to shift the ball, you want to keep it but you have to penetrate and I thought we did on many occasions and we came across to centre halves and a keeper in fine form."
Unfortunately the goal didn't come and we had to contend with a difficult spell in the second half. "They are good sides you play against in the Championship and it's very difficult to dominate 90 minutes or whatever the ref plays," Dyche admitted.
"You are trying to do that of course and you want that consistency of performance. They got back into it with a spell when it was not great football but rough and tumble and they got a goal against the grain a bit more of a breakaway goal which we were disappointed in but once again the mentality of the group was fantastic."
He introduced his third substitute, Sam Vokes, in the 86th minutes. "Someone shouted in the stand about Vokesy going on 'What's he going to do in five minutes?', he joked. "That's always an interesting one I think, it was an interesting moment but I'm sure he'll retract those words.
"After that little soft spell in the performance I thought we came back very strong and finished in fine shape and going forward on the front foot. The mentality got affected for about ten minutes and then it came back again and we started playing again and started shifting the ball.
"I really enjoyed the impact the subs made because that's important over the season that they're ready to come on and ready to affect the game and they've affected it today but overall I must say we thoroughly deserved a minimum of a point and probably on reflection all three."
It was his first East Lancs derby and became the first Burnley manager to get anything out of this fixture since Harry Potts. He did enjoy the derby atmosphere: "Fantastic, I absolutely loved it.
"I like the mentality of these games and I was even suggesting a turnaround in the history making it clear to the lads what better chance have you got because when it's so far against you historically it's time to turn it round and we so nearly did and probably should have.
"I thoroughly enjoyed it and the fan reaction was outstanding I thought and to give them that goal at the end is so pleasing because they are seeing the shift in mentality, I think it's quite obvious.
"Today they've seen that nice mixture that I spoke about but we are still working on it, good play, good shape, good defending, good energy and creating lots of chances but to give the fans that goal at the end was really important because it would have been a travesty I felt today to come away from that with nothing."