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Burnley defender O'Shea: Early penalty key to defeating Brentford

Burnley defender Dara O'Shea was delighted after their win against Brentford.

The Clarets won 2-1 with goals from Jacob Bruun Larsen (p) and David Datro Fofana scoring for the hosts.

“I'm feeling really good," O'Shea told the club's website. "The mood in the changing room is brilliant. We've been missing that feeling, you know we've been close in recent games, we've been playing well so today to get three points is big for us. It's that bit of a confidence boost to go into the end of the season. Then obviously with the break now it's nice to finish on a win.

“Obviously, it helped getting that penalty early on and the sending off, it kind of changes the game slightly too.

"But we played the way we wanted to play today which is really important for us. We worked a lot in the week on being good attacking and then whilst we're attacking having that good defence, keeping the pressure applied and I thought we did that really well today."

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