SEAN DYCHE was left seeing red – despite Burnley recording a rare Carabao Cup success. The Clarets won 5-4 on penalties for only their second victory in eight attempts in this competition to set up a third-round trip to Millwall. But the Burnley boss was incensed about a challenge by Sheffield United defender Jack Robinson […]
SEAN DYCHE was left seeing red – despite Burnley recording a rare Carabao Cup success.
The Clarets won 5-4 on penalties for only their second victory in eight attempts in this competition to set up a third-round trip to Millwall.
But the Burnley boss was incensed about a challenge by Sheffield United defender Jack Robinson on Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
The Blades centre-half clattered into the Icelander, who was carried off on a stretcher and Robinson was not booked.
With Burnley’s squad thin, they could ill-afford to lose another to injury as they struggle in the transfer market.
Dyche said: “It should have been a red card. I looked at it at half-time to get my mind straight. Johann has twisted his knee and it’s unlikely it will be a matter of days.
“It’s another player down when we are already short of bodies and we don’t have much in the pipeline.
“It didn’t look a good challenge, it was needless. In my day it would have been a yellow, but it should have been a red.”
Blades chief Chris Wilder blamed referee Paul Tierney.
He said: “The referee was right in front of it and didn’t give anything. I didn’t really see it but I’ve been told it was a little bit near the mark.”
Wilder had made ten changes to his team which lost their Premier League opener to Wolves on Monday.
He handed out five debuts to his summer signings and one of them, left wing-back Max Lowe, provided the cross for David McGoldrick to score after just four minutes.
Burnley’s Robbie Brady nearly made it 1-1 but hit the post. Matej Vydra did equalise on 67 minutes with a calm finish following Jay Rodriguez’s chest into his path.
It took a fantastic reaction stop from Clarets’ No 1 Nick Pope to deny sub Oli McBurnie a stoppage-time winner
The goalkeeper then saved McBurnie’s penalty in the shoot-out, before Brady converted the winning spot-kick.
