Lyle Foster returns as Burnley go down to on-form Everton

First-half goals from Amadou Onana and Michael Keane silenced Turf Moor.as Dyche, who twice guided Burnley to promotion and kept them up against the odds during a decade at the club, walked away all smiles.

Without their 10-point deduction over a breach of the Premier League's profitablity and sustainability rules last month, Everton would now have been up to ninth on the standings.

Vincent Kompany, who brought Burnley back to the Premier League with a 101-point campaign in the Championship, has rebuilt the club in a different image.

Having taken four points from their last three games to match the return from the previous 13, Burnley started well, keeping Everton pegged back – at least for the opening 19 minutes.

James Trafford did well to keep out Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s close-range header, but The Clarets failed to defend the resulting corner and it was all too easy for Onana to get away from Josh Brownhill and power in at the far post.

Jacob Bruun Larsen and Jay Rodriguez both saw shots blocked in the visitors' box, and six minutes later it was 2-0 to The Toffees.

Jordan Pickford hit a long free-kick forward and James Tarkowski headed it down for another former Claret, Keane, to try his luck from range.

Trafford parried, but the ball struck Dara O’Shea and fell kindly for Keane, in for the suspended Jarrad Branthwaite, to sweep home his first goal of the season.

Burnley™s early promise dissipated in a silent Turf Moor. They did threaten again just before half-time but Ben Godfrey, making only his second Premier League appearance of the season, got a vital toe to Vitinho™s cross before Zeki Amdouni.

At half-time Kompany turned to Foster, the South Africa forward surprisingly named among the substitutes after a recent absence to deal with mental health issues.

The 23-year-old replaced Rodriguez to make his first appearance since October 21, although Kompany has all but ruled him out of next month's Africa Cup of Nations, for which he was named in Bafana coach Hugo Broos' 50-man preliminary squad.

Burnley were better after the break, but only managed to create half-chances. Sander Berge had an early shot blocked before Foster failed to get enough power on his effort.

After Trafford failed to clear a corner and Keane had a close-range shot blocked on the line, Amdouni offered a more direct threat at the other end when he eyed up Pickford™s far post from 25 yards out, forcing the England goalkeeper to stretch and push it wide.

It was that old familiar story for Burnley, who dominated possession and had 14 shots at goal, but they ended the day empty-handed, stuck on eight points from 17 games and off the bottom of the table on goal difference alone.

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