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The ref has blown his whistle for full time.
Paul Wotton goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.
Plymouth are replacing Sylvan Ebanks-Blake with Cherno Samba.
Burnley are replacing Wade Elliott with Alan Mahon.
Michael Duff is booked for unsporting behaviour.
The referee has booked Barry Hayles.
The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 0.
Half time whistle is blown by P Miller
The referee has booked Frank Sinclair.
Gifton Noel-Williams is being taken off, Kyle Lafferty has come on in his place.
It's 3pm on Saturday, October 21st, the match has kicked off.
A high-quality game between two of the season's surprise packages ended with honours even as Plymouth Argyle drew 0-0 with Burnley at Home Park. Both sides showed how they have joined the early-season Premiership-seeking pacemakers with performances that did them proud. The home side, playing their third game inside six days, were led expertly by veteran forward and man of the match Barry Hayles and played at a high tempo, while Burnley showed themselves to be disciplined and well-organised in defence. The visitors might even have snatched a barely deserved victory in the opening and closing minutes, when £750,000 striker Andy Gray twice went close. First, he saw his scrambled shot following Steve Jones' left-wing corner, cleared off the line by Hayles and then, in the dying moments, he narrowly failed to get a touch on another left-wing delivery that went clean across the Argyle goal. He followed that effort up by forcing Pilgrims goalkeeper Luke McCormick into making a rare save. Those chances apart, Burnley, who gave a debut to central defender Steve Foster in place of injured captain John McGreal, set their stall out to make sure they did not leave Home Park without at least a point. Goalkeeper Brian Jensen was in superb form, making a tremendous double save to deny both Akos Buzsaky and Marcel Seip in the first half to keep the Clarets in the game. When the Dane was eventually beaten, by the magnificent Hayles' lob, the ball hit the crossbar, rebounded off the back of his head, and trickled out for a corner. Earlier, veteran striker Hayles had burst on to David Norris' pass and left Burnley captain Frank Sinclair on his backside but Jensen intercepted Hayles' pass before it reached Sylvan Ebanks-Blake. Ebanks-Blake then played Hayles through the middle and the Pilgrims' senior striker knocked the ball past Jensen, but was forced too wide to simply roll the ball home. Burnley, unbeaten away from home this season, were on the back foot but kept their shape and their discipline to frustrate the Pilgrims.
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