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Dyche delighted with Burnley victory: We deserved some luck!

Burnley boss Sean Dyche admits they were fortunate with victory over Southampton.

Ashley Barnes' deflected shot in the 73rd minute, after Tom Heaton had earlier saved Dusan Tadic's penalty, earned the Clarets a 1-0 victory over Southampton.

It was enough to lift Burnley out of the relegation zone, at least until QPR play Everton on Monday.

Boss Dyche said: "You need a scratch of luck and we got that with the goal.

"It can't be said for the penalty save because I think it's an absolutely outstanding save rather than a miss, and their lad (Victor Wanyama) put one over later in the game.

"They are the margins and we've been on the wrong side of those margins at times. Overall I thought the luck that went in our favour was well deserved.

"There's a belief about what we do and I've made it clear - we didn't come into this division thinking we're going to have 500 passes a game and rip teams to shreds.

"We knew we'd have to find different ways of winning. We did that last year. We've taken that mentality into this year.

"I thought some of the football in the first half was very good, with pockets of it in the second half. That's our fifth clean sheet in 15 games, which is a marker in itself at this level."

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