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Watford 3-0 Burnley
Tamas Priskin came off the bench to score a clinical brace as Watford earned a vital Championship win against a very disappointing Burnley.
Jobi McAnuff fired the Hornets in front in the first minute, reacting first to Will Hoskins' searching cross into the six-yard box.
Martin Paterson went close with two chances for the Clarets before Priskin lashed a low shot past Brian Jensen.
The Hungarian international side-footed home in injury time to seal the points.
Watford boss Brendan Rodgers:"I have a big respect for Burnley. I've watched them since Owen Coyle's gone in there, he's done a terrific job and I like their idea of football.
"I'll always respect coaches and managers in the division who are happy to go with that principled play and I think we've seen how good a team they are over the last few weeks."
Burnley manager Owen Coyle:"We are a good side when everyone's tuned in, focused and do the job I asked them.
"I do not ask those players to do things they are not capable of, but that's just basic errors that have cost us tonight. It wasn't through good play. It was through bad errors on our part."
Watford: Loach, Hoyte (Lee Williamson 71), Mariappa, Mike Williamson, Doyley, Cork, McAnuff, Smith, Jenkins, Rasiak (Harley 60), Hoskins (Priskin 76). Subs Not Used: Lee, DeMerit.
Booked: Hoyte.
Goals: McAnuff 2, Priskin 78, 90.
Burnley: Jensen, Alexander, Carlisle, Caldwell, Kalvenes, Gudjonsson (McDonald 79), Elliott, McCann, Eagles, Paterson (Rodriguez 79), Blake (Thompson 61).

Burnley 2-1 QPR (aet)

Rodriguez acknowledges the crowd after scoring Burnley's winner
Jay Rodriguez fired Burnley into round four of the FA Cup with a goal in the last minute of extra time at Turf Moor.
Rodriguez nipped in and beat QPR keeper Radek Cerny with a low shot from the edge of the box after Damian Stewart had allowed a high ball to bounce.
Samuel Di Carmine fired QPR into the lead but Steven Thompson lashed in for Burnley after Cerny flapped at a cross.
QPR's Martin Rowlands hit the bar and shot over in normal time, while Chris Eagles fired over for the Clarets.
The result means Burnley face a trip to the Hawthorns on Saturday, 24 January for a fourth round game against West Brom after the Baggies beat Peterborough 2-0 in their third round replay at London Road.
Burnley: Jensen, Alexander, Carlisle, Caldwell, Jordan, Elliott, McCann (Mahon 20), Gudjonsson (MacDonald 84), Eagles, Blake (Rodriguez 69), Thompson. Subs Not Used: Penny, Kalvenes, Akinbiyi, Kay.
Booked: Caldwell, Mahon.
Goals: Thompson 60, Rodriguez 120.
QPR: Cerny, Hall, Stewart, Gorkss, Delaney, Alberti, Leigertwood, Mahon (Rose 79), Rowlands, Ledesma (Ephraim 55), Di Carmine (Helguson 85). Subs Not Used: Borrowdale,

West Brom 2-2 Burnley

Martin Patterson makes it 2-2 with just two minutes to spare
Burnley came from behind late-on to force a replay and go into the hat for the FA Cup fifth-round draw.
Graham Alexander thumped Burnley into the lead from the penalty spot after Jonathan Greening had pushed Robbie Blake over in the area.
Robert Koren pulled West Brom level, crashing home a 25-yard volley before Do-heon Kim's deflected free-kick put West Brom ahead in the first-half.
Burnley levelled on 89 minutes when Martin Paterson turned in a low cross.
A buoyant Burnley showed no signs of fatigue after their mid-week Carling Cup semi-final game against Tottenham and stunned the Premier League side by taking the lead early on at The Hawthorns.
The Clarets have already beaten Premier League sides Fulham, Chelsea and Arsenal in the League Cup this season but had to come from behind late on to keep their FA Cup hopes alive.
The opening goal came when West Brom captain Greening was adjudged to have fouled Blake and Burnley's spot-kick specialist Alexander stepped up to drill home a rising shot which Scott Carson had no chance with.
Koren pulled the Baggies level 10 minutes later.
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Now we have to face a tough trip up to Turf Moor, a ground we have struggled at in the past. Some of our players just didn't want to know.
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Greening stroked a corner into the Burnley box which Steven Caldwell headed away from goal but it fell invitingly for Koren and the Slovenian international rifled a blistering volley into the top corner.
Only the woodwork stopped Blake restoring Burnley's lead after his powerful left-footed drive thumped against the crossbar.
Four minutes into first-half injury-time Kim put the Baggies ahead with a 20-yard deflected free-kick after he had been fouled by Clarke Carlisle which wrong footed goalkeeper Brian Jensen.
In a dramatic second half both sides created chances and West Brom could have wrapped the game up when Roman Bednar burst past Michael Duff, rounded Jensen but he could not find the finish as his shot rebounded off the post.
Burnley upped the tempo late on and West Brom had Carson to thanks for keeping the home side's lead intact as he saved acrobatically from Steve Thompson's drive.
With two minutes to play Burnley forced the replay that their endeavour deserved.
Blake found Elliott and the Burnley winger ran at the West Brom defence driving over a low cross which found Paterson who poked home.
West Brom manager Tony Mowbray: "I was disappointed with the performance in the first half. You have got to give Burnley a lot of credit. They play the game in a manner I appreciate.
"Having got in front at half-time, we should have gone on to finish the game off and we had enough opportunities after half-time to do that.
"At 3-1 it would have been a long way back for them after all the effort they put in this week.
"They always had something to chase and go for and they got a goal and good luck to them. They took a wee chance by pushing extra men forward and they reaped the rewards."
Burnley manager Owen Coyle: "Everyone expected us to turn up here and roll over but everyone who knows me will know I have unbelievable faith in this set of lads.
"We have gone 2-1 behind right on half-time and we have come in and it would have been easy to feel sorry for ourselves.
"But I have so much pride at the way they went about things, and the character and the desire they showed for the football club and for each other, and that is very important."
West Brom: Carson, Hoefkens, Pele, Donk (Zuiverloon 72), Robinson, Kim, Greening (Borja Valero 40), Filipe Teixeira (Brunt 71), Koren, Simpson, Bednar.Subs Not Used: Kiely, Cech, Dorrans, Fortune.
Goals: Koren 31, Kim 45.
Burnley: Jensen, Duff (Thompson 66), Carlisle, Caldwell, Kalvenes (Rodriguez 86), Elliott, Alexander, McCann, Eagles (Gudjonsson 60), Blake, Paterson. Subs Not Used: Penny, McDonald, Mahon, MacDonald.
Goals: Alexander 25 pen, Paterson 89.
Att: 18,294

Burnley 2-1 Charlton
Steve Thompson's injury-time strike secured victory for Burnley and left Charlton nine points from safety.
Bottom-placed Charlton had taken a first-half lead when Nick Bailey tucked away a cross from Tom Soares.
But with 14 minutes remaining Thompson equalised from close range after Martin Paterson's headed assist.
And in the 94th minute Kevin McDonald found space on the right flank and crossed in for Thompson to fire home from six yards out for his second goal.
Burnley manager Owen Coyle:"The courage and bravery the players showed was tremendous. There was real bravery in their performance. We have the courage of our convictions.
"It was important to win today, we have played 40 games and are just two points away from the play-offs.
"It would have been easy to hide at 1-0 down but my players don't know when they are beaten. We have great spirit at this football club."
Charlton boss Phil Parkinson:"To put in the performance we did and get nothing is a blow. Six minutes of stoppage time was a joke. The referee got sucked in by the home supporters - I expected four minutes and it's cost us.
"We came under pressure in the second half, but we had two moments where we didn't work hard enough to stop the ball coming into the box.
"Whilst we showed resilience and commitment, that has to go right down to the wire."
Burnley: Jensen, Alexander, Duff, Caldwell, Kalvenes (McDonald 58), Elliott, Williams, McCann (Gudjonsson 85), Eagles (Thompson 63), Paterson, Blake. Subs Not Used: Penny, Rodriguez.
Goals: Thompson 76, 90.
Charlton: Elliot, Murty, Holland, Ward, Youga, Soares, Bailey, Spring, Sam (Basey 85), Dickson (Kandol 70), Burton. Subs Not Used: Randolph, Ambrose, Racon.
Booked: Kandol.

Burnley fell to a second successive defeat over the Christmas period with a 2-1 reverse at Doncaster and this was arguably our worst performance since the opening day defeat at Sheffield Wednesday.

Brian Jensen - Man of the Match
This was a shocker that left a big away following in angry mood as they left the dreadful Keepmoat Stadium at the end with most of that anger pointing in the direction of the strange looking line up and formation.Heaven knows why we changed a winning formula for the last two games, but yesterday we employed something very similar to the jiggery pokery system we tried back in August. It didn't work then and it most certainly didn't work at Doncaster.I know Joey Gudjonsson isn't everyone's cup of tea but with Kevin McDonald unable to get himself fit he's without doubt our best option in midfield. To leave him out and field a side with only one recognised central midfielder looks pure folly to me.The day had started well enough. A trouble free journey without the enforced detours that made the Bristol City trip a difficult one, and the pre-match stop for lunch proved to be an excellent one.We were in plenty of time as we parked up, but oh dear what an awful place. Now I've been to the old ground at Belle View and I certainly wouldn't be recommending a return to anything like that. But this place is just as bad as you are going to get for a new 'Airfix Model' style football ground in an awful setting. Just be very thankful we don't have to play our home games in a ground like that and in such an awful location. Mind you, they do have a lake to drown yourself in when times get bad.Inside the players were warming up. Alex MacDonald was out on the pitch but there was no sign of Kevin McDonald. Otherwise it was the same as the Barnsley game and once the warm up started in earnest it was evident that we were starting with the same eleven.It all got off to a decent start. After one Doncaster attack we dominated the early period of the game and won a good few corners. Wade Elliott was down the right, Chris Eagles on the left and Robbie looked to be playing in the middle behind striker Martin Paterson.With ten minutes or so gone it was all looking good. Robbie had come closest to opening the scoring and nothing had been seen of Doncaster. Probably we should have brought the game to an end then because it didn't get better for Burnley after that, it got considerably worse.About a quarter of an hour in we were counting ourselves lucky to still be level after an horrendous mistake by Clarke Carlisle let in Paul Heffernan. Now I know one-on-one situations are Brian Jensen's forte but he took it to a new level with this one. This was simply outstanding and he got enough on it to see it go wide for a corner.The game was changing, Doncaster were getting themselves on top. They were beginning to take control in the middle of the pitch and by now I had no idea who was playing where. Certainly Wade looked to have settled into a central midfield role.Again we were thankful to the Beast for keeping us level. He made another good save to keep out a shot from the very impressive James Coppinger. Getting to it was one thing, getting a good hand on it to push it well out of the danger area was quite another.Nothing much was being seen of us but in an isolated attack we almost took the lead. Martin Paterson broke clear only to be upended by the less than cultured Matt Mills.I'm at the far end so the view isn't perfect, but I have to admit to being surprised that the Kettle didn't boil at this one. With Burnley fans chanting, "Off, off, off" he didn't even bother with his yellow card.Robbie took the kick and from the moment it left his boot I thought it was in. His former Leeds team mate Neil Sullivan didn't have an earthly of getting to it but it hit the underside of the bar and Doncaster were still level.But we weren't playing very well by now and you sensed we were only one mistake away from going behind. Then, in a two minute spell, we lost the game in a flurry of appalling mistakes.Firstly Stephen Jordan got himself in a knot but looked to have got himself out of it as he hooked the ball away. It was never going to be a good ball but it thankfully went straight to Carlisle who headed clear. Well, heading clear was the idea but he placed his header absolutely perfectly for Coppinger who was never going to look this gift horse in the mouth.Before we'd come to terms with being 1-0 down we found ourselves 2-0 down and a man down as well. They went past the shocking Carlisle as if he wasn't there and so his defensive partner Steven Caldwell pulled the forward back.There could be no arguments at the penalty award and there could be no arguments about the red card. Brian Stock sent Jensen the wrong way as the keeper went down to his right, but with another Doncaster player having encroached almost beyond Stock the referee ordered a retake.This time Jensen went to his left but Stock hit it to his right and the game was well and truly up for Burnley.We got to half time without further problems with a hastily reorganised line up and there was no option after half time that we had to push forward and try to salvage something for a not very good Doncaster side.Martin Paterson had the first opportunity but shot tamely from an angle at Sullivan, but Doncaster could so easily have extended their lead only to be denied again by Jensen who tipped a shot over his bar.Almost with the next move following that save we got ourselves back in the game. Elliott went on a barnstorming run through the middle. He looked to have run out of options before finding Paterson on the right hand side. The striker stepped inside the defender before curling into the far corner.Game on possibly. Sadly it was not to be although there was a very strong shout for a penalty. It came almost immediately after an amazing incident when the referee actually sent off a spectator in the stand to our left. He'd ensured we couldn't get the ball back to take a throw in, Kettle was having none of it and ordered the stewards to remove him from the ground.From that throw we got the ball into the box and it certainly looked very much like a handball to me. It wasn't given and with it I think went our best chance.We made a couple of substitutions but nothing changed, Doncaster looked comfortable enough and we weren't creating anything, although any decision could have been given following a clash between Sullivan and Eagles.The goalkeeper elbowed Eagles who responded by kicking out at him. Kettle saw absolutely nothing, the assistant saw the retaliatory kick and awarded Doncaster a free kick. Had he seen the elbow as well then the flag would surely have been going across his chest. But it was a free kick to Doncaster and having seen nothing Kettle took no further action other than to speak to both players.Joey Gudjonsson, on for McCann who had played carrying an injury, shot over and that was the only shot at goal from us that I can recall in the half hour following our goal. We really didn't offer much and there's no doubt that Doncaster deserved to win it.I'm still trying to work out how we could have gone from the team that won at Bristol City, and had turned in such a memorable performance at Sheffield United in the away game before, to this performance. It really was awful and horribly disjointed.Man of the match. Absolutely no doubt whatsoever for me. I thought Blake and Paterson played well enough, and Elliott worked manfully in the midfield. Our two full backs were constantly exposed because we had no width further up the pitch and they certainly had difficult afternoons.But I said there was no doubt and there wasn't. Brian Jensen kept us in the game with two top saves at 0-0 and then on more than one occasion kept the score down. It was another outstanding display from the goalkeeper.We were second best yesterday, and a poor second at that. We need to get back forget these two games now, reorganise and get back to winning games.The teams were;Doncaster: Neil Sullivan, James O'Connor, Matt Mills, Sam Hird, James Chambers, Brian Stock, Richie Wellens (Gareth Roberts 88), Martin Woods, John Spicer (Gareth Taylor 82), James Coppinger, Paul Heffernan (Adam Lockwood 90). Subs not used: Mark Wilson, Lewis Guy.Yellow Cards: Paul Heffernan.Burnley: Brian Jensen, Michael Duff, Clarke Carlisle, Steven Caldwell, Stephen Jordan, Graham Alexander, Chris McCann (Joey Gudjonsson 69), Robbie Blake (Steven Thompson 76), Wade Elliott, Chris Eagles, Martin Paterson. Subs not used: Diego Penny, Alex MacDonald, Alan Mahon.Red Cards: Steven Caldwell.Yellow Cards: Stephen Jordan, Clarke Carlisle.Referee: Trevor Kettle (Rutland).Attendance: 14,020 (including 3,080 Clarets).
Coca-Cola Championship, Sunday, 28th December 2008 @ 15:00; Keepmoat Stadium



Coppinger 37Stock 40 (pen)

Paterson 62

Starting Line-ups
1
Sullivan
2
O'Connor
6
Chambers
5
Mills
21
Hird
20
Spicer (Taylor 82)
8
Stock
26
Coppinger
17
Woods
19
Wellens (Roberts 88)
14
Heffernan (Lockwood 90)
Substitutes
11
Lockwood (Heffernan 90)
3
Roberts (Wellens 88)
15
Wilson
10
Taylor (Spicer 82)
7
Guy
18
Goal Attempts
10
13
On Target
7
5
Off Target
2
0
Hit Woodwork
1
7
Offsides
2
9
Corners
5
13
Fouls
15
Starting Line-ups
12
Jensen
4
Duff
23
Jordan
5
Carlisle
2
Alexander
6
Caldwell
16
McCann (Gudjonsson 69)
11
Elliott
33
Eagles
20
Blake (Thompson 76)
10
Paterson
Substitutes
1
Penny
18
Mahon
27
MacDonald
8
Gudjonsson (McCann 69)
30
Thompson (Blake 76)
Referee
T Kettle, Rutland
Attendance