BURNLEY boss Sean Dyche has spoken many times this season of the importance of taking our chances.

And on the south coast on Saturday those warnings came back to bite us hard as we slipped to a 2-0 defeat.

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We started brightly enough and with the same line-up that overcame champions Manchester City the previous week, it was clear our intent was to cause Southampton problems.

But, despite all our attacking intent, we found substitute goalkeeper Kelvin Davies in fine form, the 38-year-old denying Danny Ings and Sam Vokes after replacing Fraser Forster.

Two saves from Vokes in the first half were memorable enough but it was his save from Ings, shortly after the Saints had taken the lead through Shane Long that really caught the eye.

An equalizer looked a certainty until Davies somehow got down to Ings’ smart shot to tip it away.

The Clarets were also denied what looked like a stonewall penalty (is there really such a thing these days?) before the opening goal but after Ben Mee got away with the foul on Pablo Zabaleta last week, I’m not going to whinge too much .

The results elsewhere, again, went in our favour with Aston Villa and Sunderland both going down narrowly and I’m just hoping that by the time you read this, our old mates Chelsea have nicked three points at Hull City to keep the survival race wide open.

It’s the international break now and I have to say I’m a little disappointed – but not entirely surprised – that Ingsy hasn’t received an England call-up.

He’s been in great form this season and I just felt he was worth a shot. I know there is a lot of competition in the attacking positions and no-one could deny that Harry Kane is worth a place.

I’m sure his time will come though, it’s just a shame that it probably won’t be while he is a Burnley player.