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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: Turf Moor
  • Attendance: 13677
  • Referee: Whitestone, D

Live Commentary

90 mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

88 mins

Goal!! Burnley have scored with Robbie Blake putting it in the back of the net.

85 mins

Goal!! Jordan Stewart scores for Watford.

83 mins

Tommy Smith is being taken off, Jordan Stewart has come on in his place.

75 mins

Goal!! Robbie Blake scores for Burnley.

73 mins

Nathan Ellington is being taken off, Steven Kabba has come on in his place.

73 mins

Burnley are replacing Ade Akinbiyi with Robbie Blake.

71 mins

The referee has booked Darius Henderson.

69 mins

Steven Caldwell is booked for unsporting behaviour.

61 mins

Adrian Mariappa is being taken off, Jay DeMerit has come on in his place.

54 mins

Andrew Cole goes into the referees book for dissent.

53 mins

Ade Akinbiyi is booked for unsporting behaviour.

46 mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 0 v 1.

45 mins

Half time whistle is blown by D Whitestone

23 mins

Goal!! Darius Henderson scores for Watford.

0 mins

The ref has blown his whistle and the match has started.

Match Report

Burnley sub Robbie Blake scored two second-half equalisers to earn his side a share of the spoils in a tempestuous affair with visitors Watford.

The Clarets should have taken the lead as early as the second minute when Chris McCann fed Kyle Lafferty, but the Northern Ireland International placed his shot wide of the far post.

The home side had an even better chance after only ten minutes when Leigh Bromby's back-pass sold goalkeeper Richard Lee short and his attempted clearance was charged down by McCann to striker Ade Akinbiyi.

However, he pulled his shot wide of an empty goal much to the astonishment of all who saw it.

The striker had a chance to atone for his terrible miss, but glanced a header wide of the far post following a Wade Elliott corner.

These misses were to prove expensive as the Hornets took the lead from a Jobi McAnuff corner which was glanced home by the head of striker Darius Henderson.

The visitors had a chance to extend their lead shortly afterwards, but goalkeeper Brian Jensen saved firstly from Nathan Ellington and then diverted the rebound from Henderson round the post for a corner.

The second half commenced in a similar manner to the first with Elliott seeing his shot spilt by goalkeeper Lee and Akinbiyi forcing a header into the net only to be ruled offside.

Akinbiyi then wasted another glorious opportunity heading over the cross bar from close range after Lee had parried a shot from Lafferty.

Burnley came even closer when from a corner by sub Blake, Chris McCann headed against the post, whilst at the other end McAnuff had the opportunity to win the game but blazed his shot wide.

That was to prove an expensive miss as moments later Burnley were on level terms with Andrew Cole back-heeling the ball into the path of Blake, who made no mistake with a powerful right-foot finish.

Watford went ahead for the second time on 85 minutes as Burnley failed to clear a free-kick and sub Jordan Stewart lashed home a fine left-foot volley.

But that was not the end of the drama as Owen Coyle's side showed tremendous resilience to equalise for a second time with only a couple of minutes remaining.

Once again it was a cool finish from Blake after Graham Alexander had picked out opposite full-back John Harley and his volleyed cross that found its way through to Blake, who finished in fine style to earn his team a share of the points.










Burnley Team

Watford Team

Burnley

Watford

Corners

7 6

Fouls

9 6

Goal attempts

17 10

Shots off target

9 4

Offsides

5 3

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