ROSS Wallace described his injury time equaliser at Leicester City one of the most significant goals of his career, as Burnley moved themselves off the bottom of the Premier League.

The depleted Clarets scored their first goal in six games through Michael Kightly, albeit after setting a new club record for most minutes without a goal, before Wallace’s precision free kick secured a 2-2 draw Wallace said: “It’s a massive point, the lads are buzzing,” said the winger, who scored in the sixth of seven minutes of added time after coming off the bench for Kightly, bending his free kick away from Kasper Schmeichel’s outstretched left hand.

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"If I could have placed the ball anywhere that's where I would place it. It's the perfect spot for me, but lucky enough Schmeichel gave me a little room to hit and I managed to get it up and over the wall.

“As soon as I looked up and saw he was a yard or two over to the left hand post, there was only one thing. As long as you get it up and over the wall near enough to the corner it's in.

"It's one of those things that I practice and, to be fair, if you keep practicing and it happens on the big stage hopefully you get the goal.

“There was nobody getting that ball off me,” he added.

“Tripps (Kieran Trippier) had gone down and was off the pitch but he wouldn’t have had it either.

“It was one of the better ones, and it was relief for me. It’s been a long year, or whatever, sitting on my backside.

“It was good to get on the pitch and get a run-out."

Wallace started Burnley’s promotion season but was sidelined for six months after needing knee surgery to fix a wear and tear problem.

"I'm buzzing for myself because I'm trying to get a run of three, four, five games. I haven't had that run of games for about a year now,” the Scot said.

"I just want to get back on my feet, get a run of games and the more minutes I get the better I'll get.”

Wallace was often the only occupant of the treatment room for much of last season, but Burnley's fortunes have already been dramatically different on the injury front this term.

The Clarets were forced to field a makeshift midfield with David Jones, Dean Marney and on-loan Chelsea youngster Nathaniel Chalobah all ruled out, along with last season’s top scorer Danny Ings and long-term casualty Sam Vokes.

But Wallace was pleased with the response to that, and the heavy defeat to West Brom the previous weekend.

"West Brom was poor. We were disappointed as a team. That wasn't us,” he said.

"We changed shape and went one up front and it didn't suit us. We went back to two up front and it looked more like us and we were more of a threat.

"We worked unbelievably hard. We were missing some massive players. The injury list is unbelievable at the minute with Jonesy and Deano in the middle of the park, Vokesy and Ingsy. That's the spine of the team.

"They did unbelievably well last year but I thought Stephen Ward and Scott Arfield were outstanding in the middle of the park, they dug in, we kept it tight and we always had a chance.”