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  1. Burnley 0-2 Brighton - the fans' verdictpublished at 12:22 BST 13 April

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    We asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between Burnley and Brighton.

    Here are some of your comments:

    Burnley fans

    Shaun: Typical Burnley! Played okay but with very little quality in the final third. Concede first, then have a good spell but don't kick on! The substitutions made were baffling again. Championship here we come!

    Martin: Scott Parker is in cloud cuckooland if he thinks it was an even game. Forget stats - Brighton should have been out of sight by half time. I lost count of the number of times we lost possession. We had no quality without Hannibal Mejbri. This was one of the worst performances of the season, and that's saying something.

    Paul: Woeful. The score flattered us. Brighton should have had another two in first half. We are toothless and low on confidence. Parker seems to have coached out any determination from the squad.

    Michael: That's the least I've cared about a Burnley game since the Cotterill era. It's not necessarily that we're really bad, it's just bland, nothingness devoid of any excitement or emotion.

    Brighton fans

    David: A scruffy game but only to be expected against a side almost down, so we did not miss Lewis Dunks stability. We have the ability to take points from all of our remaining fixtures, so the dream of Europe is still alive.

    Olly: A good win but made hard work of it. It is still a worry the number of chances that are missed. At least they have momentum for the final games and, if they keep it up, Europe next year is a real possibility.

    Andrew: So good to see Brighton getting results against the lower teams too. The recent consistency must silence Fabian Hurzeler's critics.

    Steve: Our quest for European football continues. Though the performance wasn't the best, the result is all that matters. But for a couple of very tight offside decisions this result may have been so different!

  2. Burnley 0-2 Brighton: What Parker saidpublished at 20:36 BST 11 April

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    Burnley manager Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport after his side's defeat by Brighton: "Frustrating. Probably from the result really, I don't think there was much in the game. We concede the goal at the wrong time in the first half. The fine, fine margins of the game obviously with the two goals disallowed, which are of the finest, of finest of margins. It was an even game really but the clinical moments we had we didn't manage to execute. There's some familiarity of the year in terms of that."

    On Burnley's two disallowed goals: "I think that's how you see football really now. There's a perfection to the game. People will always fall back and reference well it's the correct decision. If that's what it is, that's what it is. I get we're in a world where everyone wants perfection in every walk of life, and football is certainly turning out that way. But from my side when I look back on it, from a still, it doesn't actually look like offside.

    "Now, of course, I get that you can reference that obviously it was from the angle. But that's ultimately the way it is. We're ultimately falling back on technology, or AI, or some gadget that will prove a human being wrong in that sense. That's the way it is. That's disapointing. It's by the finest of finest of knee caps. That's the way it's going.

    "I see a team fully committed. We can be critical of this team in certain moments on the lack of quality or lack of clinical moments. But I didn't see a team you can be critical of in terms of effort. "

    Did you know?

    • Burnley have failed to score in 12 Premier League games this season, with only Wolves (16) and Nottingham Forest (14) failing to score in more this term.

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