LINCOLN City boss Danny Cowley praised Sean Dyche for his warm words after the Imps had knocked Burnley out of the FA Cup.

Cowley and Dyche spoke after the game and the Lincoln boss said he had 'so much respect' for the Clarets chief.

"He was really good, he was brilliant," Cowley said when asked if they'd spoken after the game.

"We’ve got so much respect for him. He said he’d been on the other side of it, he had a fantastic cup run as a player at Chesterfield. What they achieved in that run was incredible.

“He said to make sure we try to enjoy it.”

Cowley and brother Nicky, his assistant, said they had been confident coming to Turf Moor because of the similarities between the side.

Nicky called Burnley the 'Premier League version' of Lincoln and added: “They’re really gritty, hard working, resilient and they’ve got to their position in the Premier League through all the quality we’d like to see in our teams."

Danny said: "We felt really confident with the gameplan. They are a really, really, really good version of us.

“They’re such an organised team without the ball and what they’re so good at it is turning it over and countering from there.

“We knew it would be different for them. With the team they picked they were a little bit lobsided. They had a right footer at left back and we felt that as a result they wouldn’t attack the whole pitch they would maybe only use 65 per cent of it.

“We were able to only need to defend two thirds of the pitch rather than the whole pitch and that made it a bit easier for us.”

Lincoln became the first non-league side to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in 103 years with victory at Turf Moor.

Asked what Lincoln had done for the cup, Danny said: "Maybe brought some of the magic back. It’s a brilliant cup competition. Whoever says the FA Cup is dead haven’t lived in Lincoln in the last six to eight weeks. It’s galvanised our football club.

"This club has had some tough times but this run has brought back Lincoln back to the forefront of people’s minds in the city.

"We’ve loved every minute. This run has been life changing for us."