Paul Heckingbottom was massively disappointed with his sides performance in the defeat at Turf Moor.
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00:00 Massively disappointed. Listen, we picked a team with experience, physicality, so certainly
00:09 to start the game and impose ourselves on Burnley, which they would have been expecting,
00:14 and then we dangled two legs in two tackles in the first 30 seconds, a lower ball in our
00:17 box and 1-0 down. The second goal's not much better from our point of view, now we
00:22 defend it and then by half-time we've got 10 men. So Burnley would not have been expecting
00:27 a game like that and neither was I. So that's decided again.
00:35 Listen, giving them a one-goal lead start is all we've done. As frustrated as I am and
00:39 as angry as I am with the goal and the nature of it, giving them a one-goal lead start.
00:45 I think the best way to sum it up is you can't kid anyone when you're on the pitch, certainly
00:49 not the fans, you can't kid them. The moments in that game where we were second best in
00:53 competing. In this league, regardless of the level, we all know the step-up in level and
01:04 if you're not good enough because that step-up's too big, you can hold your hands up. But if
01:11 you want a career at this level, if you want to stay here as a group or as an individual,
01:17 you have to embrace the league and you have to embrace the challenge of it. As I said,
01:21 you can't kid anyone and people know who is playing without fear and playing with the
01:29 freedom and the excitement of what the Premier League should bring.