SEAN Dyche was grateful to a 'moment of quality' for earning Burnley he felt they had deserved against West Ham.

The Clarets had to be patient against 10-man West Ham, who had seen Andy Carroll sent off not long after Michail Antonio had capitalised on a Ben Mee mistake to put them ahead.

That left Burnley with a man advantage for over an hour and they made it count when Chris Wood headed home Johann Berg Gudmundsson's cross five minutes from the end.

"I thought we deserved to get something," Dyche said.

“The only disappointment was a really poor goal, it’s unlike us. I don’t think they’d really had a chance in the first half, then when they go to 10 men, to their credit, they had two really good bits of play and nearly opened us up.

“Other than that we were obviously dominant, generally, due to the 10 men especially, and we had a lot of nearly moments, Matt Lowton had one at the far stick, Woody had a couple, then we found a real moment of quality.

“A fantastic bit of play from Johann, and a great run and header from Woody."

Dyche added: "They backed in, they’ve got a bit of pace on the counter, some good footballers, when they did have the odd breakaway, and it’s still difficult to break teams down.

“A lot has been made of us being difficult to break down, and it’s difficult, even when they have 10 men, if the framework is right, and credit to them for that - we only opened them up a couple of times, mainly with crossing situations, but if there’s no space in behind, it is difficult, space to open up the width and in behind.

“You have to keep probing and probing, and we did, so I’m very pleased with the players’ mentality to keep going and make sure we did get something."

Burnley could have been awarded a first-half penalty when Wood went down under a challenge for Joe Hart, who pulled his arms away but still made contact with the ball after bringing Wood down.

“I was a long way away and haven’t seen it back, but it looks it from where I am," Dyche said.

"It looked like the keeper over-committed and pulled his arms away. That’s usually a sign they’ve gone too far. It’s rare you don’t see them given."

Carroll's sending off followed two bookings in under two minutes as he caught James Tarkowski and then Ben Mee in aerial challenges.

“Definite sending off, they were two bookings, the second possibly a straight red," Dyche said.

“I think he’ll know afterwards in the modern game, they are two yellows at least.

“As a player you sometimes get locked in the moment, I don’t know Andy well enough, but maybe he just had that moment, maybe he felt the one before was unjust, I don’t know, but it’s fair to say he was moving at a good velocity from a distance, everyone in the stadium thought he’s going to go and make a big challenge.

“I’ve been a player, you get in the emotional moment and sometimes can’t pull out, I don’t know, it’s a question for him. The referee has no choice.

“I think we all don’t mind a bit of physicality in the game, but you’ve got no choice with those incidents."