The thought will be anathema to most football romantics, but Burnley’s hopes for the season may hinge on an honourable defeat. This reverse, against a Fulham side that could have scored twice as many, did not really fit the category; eyes at Turf Moor will now turn to the two-goal deficit they must overturn against Olympiakos on Thursday, though, and on current evidence a prolonging of their Thursday-to-Sunday regimen would put them at risk of serious trouble.
A relatively kind start to the campaign has now brought just one point and, not helped by some uncharacteristically shambolic defending, they were outmanoeuvred here by opponents whose passing and movement, led by the marvellous Jean Michaël Seri, was on a different level.
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