Wolves’ Chirewa extends Burnley’s residence woes as Vardy’s strike is in useless

The Wolves substitute Tawanda Chirewa struck inside seconds of coming off the bench as César Peixoto’s facet got here from behind to increase Burnley’s residence distress at Turf Moor to 21 video games with out a win.

Chirewa had simply changed Sean Neave within the 72nd minute when Mateus Mané pounced on Igor Julio’s heavy contact and despatched the 23-year-old Zimbabwe overseas via to strike an angled shot, which flew into the online regardless of Gregoire Coudert getting his fingers to the hassle.

It was an important victory for the guests, who had fallen behind to Jamie Vardy’s first Burnley objective earlier than levelling via Fer López.

For Burnley it was an enormous blow. Their final league win at residence was after they beat Leeds within the Premier League on 18 October, which means their horror run will stretch over a yr. Sheffield Wednesday established an undesirable English Football League document final season by going 23 video games with out a win at Hillsborough.

Burnley’s subsequent residence sport is in opposition to Portsmouth, with bitter rivals Blackburn then scheduled to go to Turf Moor on 22 November. The Clarets have been denied victory on residence soil on Tuesday evening when Ivan Mesik equalised for Charlton within the sixth minute of added time.

Vardy, who celebrates his fortieth birthday in January, illustrated that his ending instincts are as sharp as ever with a low Twentieth-minute strike that gave Wolves keeper José Sá no probability.

However, the house facet failed to show their first-half superiority into extra targets and have been hit by a sucker punch when a mistake by the captain, Kyle Walker, led to López side-footing an equaliser earlier than the break.

Wolves, weakened by an damage disaster that worsened this week when Raúl Jiménez and Adam Armstrong joined the record of absentees, travelled north having misplaced their earlier two video games. They improved after half-time, though Jacob Bruun Larsen lifted a good probability over for the hosts.

Coudert saved Fer’s free-kick and Rafiki Saïd’s snap shot earlier than Chirewa got here on to attain the winner. Tommy Doyle spurned a golden probability so as to add gloss to the scoreline late on, however Wolves held on for 3 much-needed factors earlier than boos rang round Turf Moor on the remaining whistle.