Bournemouth lose further ground in the race for European football as they are held to a fourth consecutive Premier League draw at relegation-threatened Burnley.
We made it hard for ourselves - Heckingbottompublished at 20:04 GMT 14 March
20:04 GMT 14 March
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Heckingbottom: 'We have to get everything right'
Preston North End manager Paul Heckingbottom believes his players "made it hard" for themselves following their 2-0 loss at Norwich City on Saturday.
Ali Ahmed and Kenny McLean's first half goals succumbed the Rams to their 13th loss of the season and they are now on a four match losing streak in the Championship.
They currently sit in 17th place in the table on 49 points.
"Another tough one. We had a bright start and had the best chance of the game, and then a moment, a lapse in concentration," Heckingbottom told BBC Radio Lancashire after the match.
"Odel[uga Offiah] was the correct side, they take the shot, Odel is the wrong side and we're one down, which gets compounded by a referee decision.
"Those are the things that are costing us. But after a bright start, we knew that we were still in the game and we knew we'd made it hard for ourselves, but we responded in the right way.
"The big frustration is that we didn't score. If we'd have taken any one of those chances, we'd have made it much more difficult for Norwich because we were the team in the ascendancy in terms of territory and chances in the second half, but we never made them feel that tension and anxiety that can come if we'd have got a goal."
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: What Parker saidpublished at 18:56 GMT 14 March
18:56 GMT 14 March
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Burnley boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC MOTD after their goalless draw with Bournemouth: "We played well today. First half, especially. We started a bit slow but grew into the game and had some big chances.
"You need one of them to go in to give yourself a start. That wasn't the case and it became a bit of a basketball match as the game went on. Neither team was clinical in their moments.
"I thought Jaidon [Anthony] was superb today. There was a spark about him. It was a well-worked corner. If it goes in, my set play coach is a genius. We've been hugely competitive at home. The work ethic and spirit are consistent and I get that might not be enough.
"It was difficult at the start of the season. We knew the challenge and we've just fallen short due to many reasons. We need to maintain it for sure.
Will he carry on next season? "We'll see. My main focus is here and seeing out the rest of the season and maintaining the special things we have here. Everyone understands a team coming up into the Premier League."
Did you know?
This was only the second time across their last 87 Premier League matches that Burnley have drawn a game 0-0 – the other was against Everton in December 2025.
With eight games remaining, the Lancashire club could find themselves 11 points adrift of safety if either West Ham or Nottingham Forest above them win this weekend.
Manager Scott Parker knows time is running out for the Clarets but his players did well to keep their faint survival hopes alive with a hard-fought draw against the Cherries at Turf Moor.
Unsurprisingly, it was their joint-top scorers Jaidon Anthony and Zian Flemming who were their bright sparks as they drew decent saves out of Djordje Petrovic early on.
Bournemouth then left Anthony unmarked during a James Ward-Prowse corner and would have paid a heavy price had the Burnley attacker not struck the crossbar against his former side in the closing stages of the first half.
Though the visitors finished strongly and the Clarets held on, the result means Parker's side have won only once in 21 league games since the start of November and picked up fewer points (10) than any other team during that period.
They might have held Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea and Bournemouth since the turn of the year, but must be dealing in wins rather than draws if they are to pull off a miraculous escape.
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Burnley v Bournemouth: Key stats and talking pointspublished at 19:56 GMT 13 March
19:56 GMT 13 March
Chris Adams BBC Sport journalist
Burnley continue their improbable fight for Premier League survival at Turf Moor on Saturday with the visit of a Bournemouth side on the league's longest unbeaten run.
Just one league win since October - away to Crystal Palace last month - has left Scott Parker's side 19th in the table and nine points from safety. They have the worst home record and worst defensive record in the league, damning indictments of any team.
They couldn't, could they?
Directly above them, West Ham United are showing signs of life, but the faltering form of teams such as Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur will have given the east Lancashire outfit a glimmer of hope.
The Clarets enter the game looking to stave off an unwanted record in front of their own fans. They're without a victory in their past 10 at Turf Moor and have never gone 11 successive home matches without winning in a season.
Last week's 2-0 defeat at Everton means Burnley have shipped two or more goals in 20 league games this term. They have conceded a league-high 58 goals, but in truth there are problems at both ends of the pitch.
Burnley have opened the scoring in just five league games this season, fewer than any other side. The lowest number of opening goals a team has scored across a full campaign in the division is seven, by Aston Villa in 2015-16 and Norwich City in 2021-22, both of whom finished bottom.
Iraola on a roll
Three successive draws have extended Bournemouth's unbeaten run to nine league games (won four, drawn five), which is the best ongoing sequence in the Premier League.
Just one league defeat in 2026 has Andoni Iraola's side sitting in a comfortable ninth position and with outside hopes of a European place.
Ninth is where they ended up last season – the joint-best finish in their history, alongside the 2016-17 campaign – and they are in with a chance of bettering their club record top-flight points tally of 56.
The teams shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw at Vitality Stadium in December, a somewhat low-key affair for two sides whose fixtures have generally been action-packed this term. Only Manchester United's games have featured more goals than Bournemouth's or Burnley's this season.
A superb cross for Evanilson's equaliser against Sunderland earlier this month moved Marcus Tavernier to nine goal involvements for the season (five goals and four assists), meaning the midfielder is enjoying his joint-most-productive campaign for the Cherries – he also registered nine in 2022-23.
With the knowledge that Burnley have conceded more goals from crosses than any other side in the division this season (13), Tavernier will be hoping to put his wand of a left foot to good use again.
Sutton's predictions: Burnley v Bournemouthpublished at 19:54 GMT 13 March
19:54 GMT 13 March
I remember going for a 2-0 Bournemouth win when these two sides met before Christmas.
Bournemouth went 1-0 up, so I thought I was on to score 40 points when I heard there had been another goal late on, but it turned out to be a Burnley equaliser.
That's the way my season has been going with predictions, but I am actually going to go for another Cherries win, and by the same scoreline too.
I've been saying for a while that Burnley have got too much to do to stay up, and it definitely isn't happening now.
I still think Scott Parker's side will be competitive, but I don't see them getting anything against his old club this time.
Bournemouth have not lost in the league since 3 January but they have drawn their past three games, so they are due a win.
