Burnley 1-1 Watford: Clarets denied record-breaking 11th straight Championship win

Michael Obafemi's 4th extremity of the play preserved Burnley's unbeaten location grounds this season

Burnley's hopes of a record-breaking 11th consecutive Championship triumph were dashed arsenic they were held to a gully by Watford astatine Turf Moor.

The Clarets deed the woodwork wrong the archetypal infinitesimal erstwhile Watford goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann someway diverted an Ashley Barnes changeable connected to the bar.

Watford looked acceptable to extremity Burnley's season-long unbeaten location grounds until the sixth infinitesimal of stoppage clip erstwhile Michael Obafemi scooped successful from adjacent scope aft a scramble.

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Burnley fans had gathered astatine Turf Moor hoping to witnesser history, knowing an 11th consecutive league triumph would acceptable a caller Championship champion and interruption a 110-year-old nine record.

Yet the Hornets spoiled the enactment and enactment sixth with a 4th gully successful 5 matches, portion the Championship leaders are present 8 points wide of Sheffield United, having played a crippled more, and 18 points amended disconnected than third-placed Middlesbrough.

Obafemi's last-gasp equaliser, pouncing aft Lyle Foster had headed against the station successful a stoppage-time scramble, astatine slightest allowed the Clarets to acceptable a caller nine grounds of scoring successful 28 successive league matches.

Vincent Kompany's broadside started with each the swagger and bushed of a squad which had not dropped a constituent since 5 November and swarmed each implicit the visitors.

In-form Nathan Tella, who had scored 5 goals successful his past 2 games, was doubly recovered successful unsafe positions, but a mediocre archetypal interaction fto him down, portion Barnes changeable wide from a near-post country aft his earlier brushwood with the crossbar.

The visitors gradually gained a foothold successful an progressively scrappy and niggly archetypal half, but had failed to trial the location extremity until Muric had a unreserved of humor arsenic helium stepped retired of his country to wide an innocuous agelong ball.

The erstwhile Manchester City keeper had clip to spare, but alternatively of stepping backmost into the 18-yard container and gathering, his attempted clearance looped up disconnected his knee, allowing Pedro to play a one-two with Ken Sema and person from adjacent range.

Muric was replaced by Bailey Peacock-Farrell astatine half-time and the hosts began the 2nd play arsenic they did the first, with plentifulness of pressure.

Bachmann produced a singular halt to sphere the pb aft the hour, sticking retired his close footwear to support retired Tella's side-footed effort from 2 yards.

Chances again became harder to travel by for the hosts, contempt racking up astir 70% possession successful a stop-start last half-hour arsenic tempers frayed.

The disciplined Hornets thought they had crushed retired a archetypal league treble implicit Burnley since 2002-03, but a last-gasp inswinging country caused havoc successful the antecedently sure-footed defence, and Obafemi transformed the mood.