A great strike from Connor Roberts was not enough to pull Burnley to the top of the Championship as they held on to take the lead. Middlesbrough.
Cambri curled in a shot from 25 yards in 37 minutes, but Burnley needed to erase Dijksteel’s blistering 13th-minute opener on a night when the Moors pitch was battered by wind and rain.
In the end, the two sides could not be separated from one-time English teammates Scott Parker and Michael Carrick as Burnley were left a point behind Sheffield United, who travel to West Brom on Sunday, with Boro remaining fifth.
Burnley come into the match on the back of five straight clean sheets but, with Boro’s record of 13 goals in their previous three away games, perhaps it was no surprise that the run did not last. What was surprising was how easy it appeared to breach the Burnley defense for the first time in 501 minutes.
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Ruben Selles (pictured) left Reading and took over as Hull’s head coach in two and a half years. The Championship club released Tim Walters on 27 November and immediately moved to Southampton manager Seles Fomer.
The 41-year-old Spaniard has caught the eye with his hard work at the financial lesson over the past 18 months, with a successful league survival in League One last season followed by an impressive top-flight finish this term.
Hull president Acun Ilicali said: “We are pleased to have achieved our No 1 target. Ruben’s ambition is similar to ours. His passion and enthusiasm shine through in our meetings and we share similar ideas about how we want to decorate.”
Valentinus, the eldest son of Selles, said: “I know the team, the club, the history, and I am looking forward to traveling with the team. I saw many similarities with who we are as a technical staff and what we want to do in the present and in the future, and so I decided to come.”
Reading are moving quickly to replace Selles with Royals under-21 manager Noel Hunt named as his successor on a contract until 2027. Hunt will get Saturday’s trip to Wycombe.
Dijksteel broke right at the start of the move and was there to finish with Bashir Humphreys unable to track him down as he was clear of Dani Barlaser’s pass, breaking into the box and firing the ball over James Trafford for his first. Patronage purpose
Burnley responded well, and a good move by Boro goalkeeper Seny Dieng to push Josh Cullen’s shot over the bar after a poor deflection off Dael Fry.
With the wind blowing, forerunner to Darragh Storm, breathing balls onto the pitch sparingly, Burnley withstood the pressure as Jeremy Sarmiento attempted a shot that Dieng palmed into the side netting.
The country deservedly equalized eight minutes before half-time, perhaps with a helping hand from the conditions.
Roberts played a three-one-two, the latter with Josh Brownhill, before firing a shot from 25 yards that curled in and into the net for a two-footed Dieng, Roberts’ first Burnley goal since April 2023 after scoring the second. half the last season at Leeds.
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The start of the second half was all Boro. George Edmundson was tipped wide by Barlaser’s free-kick before Delano Burgzorg fired straight at Trafford from the center of the area.
The arrival of substitutes Zian Flemming and Hannibal Mejbri gave Burnley new attacks, but Hannibal was guilty of wasting a beautiful chance in the 68th minute, insisting to go alone when Jaidon Anthony was in space and screamed the ball to the right.
Boro substitute Emmanuel Latte Lath then broke the offside trap for Finn Azaz’s pass, and Trafford should have been right on the ball from the Ivorian on the edge of the box.
It was then Anthony’s turn to curl a shot wide from the edge of the box before Roberts’ other excellent lines from five corners after a corner were pulled out, and he finished all square.