Striking late, Joey Barton and going places: Talking points from Burnley 1 Leicester City 0

What a wonderful habit Burnley have got into at Turf Moor this season.

Sam Vokes’ 87th minute goal was the fifth time in the Premier League this term they have struck in the final 13 minutes to win a game at home.

The Clarets ability to go to the very end has never been in doubt, but until this season it felt like a trait they had mastered in the Championship but that had brought them little success in the top flight.

How that has changed now. The wins over Everton and Crystal Palace were ding-dong encounters won dramatically in stoppage time.

Since Boxing Day Middlesbrough, Southampton and now Leicester have been beaten 1-0 in games Burnley fought to take control off before turning the heat higher and higher until the opposition had no choice but to wilt.

JOEY BARTON

On this form the Clarets need to get Barton tied down for another season at Turf Moor.

Whatever the details of his Ibrox nightmare he never really fired in Scotland as he had promised to do so.

But his performances since returning to Burnley have been excellent and he ran the midfield against Leicester, alongside the irrepressible Jeff Hendrick.

This was Barton’s first Premier League start since the end of the 2014/15 season and given he is now 34 and had suffered an unhappy time north of the border there were inevitably questions about whether he was still capable of performing at this level.

In the space of a month he has quashed them. The system and the environment at Turf Moor allow him to thrive, and he has just done that.

GOING PLACES

It was hard to escape the feeling last night that this was a football club that was going places.

Announcing your record signing over the tannoy at half-time might be an unconventional way of doing things but what a masterstroke it was, giving the crowd a lift and creating a buzz around the ground.

Off the pitch the Clarets are getting things right. This was the third time the transfer record had gone in less than six months and they were deadline day’s biggest spenders, and all of it was done with their own money.

On the pitch against the champions Sean Dyche’s side were superb in what were frankly rotten conditions.

They defended well against a pacy and dangerous threat and for the final half an hour they got better and better before claiming an 11th Turf Moor win of the season.