Burnley boss Sean Dyche was furious at his side's display against Sunderland.

While Dyche did make 10 changes for the Carabao Cup clash, he felt there was enough experience to win the game.

Instead, they suffered a 3-1 defeat and are out of the competition. The Clarets' second half display irked Dyche in particular.

"The reality of football is delivering a performance," said a candid Dyche to the club's website.

"If you don't deliver then it's irrelevant who are you are playing against. In the second half there weren't enough people actively taking the game on.

"And if I'm really honest – and I've told them this – if they look when you're picking a team and ask, 'why am I not playing?' Well, that's why!

"The last half an hour is why, because you lay down a marker in those games.

"In those games we're looking for big characters and big performers. I thought Chris Wood did that. He looked a real handful and how we should have looked for the second half.

"A few stuck at it, to be fair, and we took Azza (Aaron Lennon) off as a precaution because Johann almost definitely won't be ready for the weekend.

"But collectively that's a very strong group and I'm expecting that group to perform tonight and they didn't in the second half.

"The first five minutes of that second half was unacceptable for a group as experienced as I had out there.

"Those players have been good in training and the standard has been very high. But all that goes out the window if you're not ready to perform."