SOMETIMES it’s not the result that matters but the performance.

But on Saturday – literally against all odds and expectations – we got both in a 1-1 draw with champions-elect Manchester City.

No one gave us a chance and at half-time I don’t think anyone at Turf Moor could see us putting in the performance we did second half to earn a point.

City, without really testing Nick Pope, were utterly dominant.

They control possession superbly and they are frighteningly quick moving the ball from back to front.

But with just a one-goal advantage – courtesy of a stunner from Denilson – anything can happen in football and the game really did swing in our favour around the 70-minute mark.

Firstly Ederson pulled off an absolute worldy of a save from Aaron Lennon – who looked superb on his home debut – and then Raheem Sterling conspired to miss from less than two yards out at the other end just a couple of minutes later.

That lifted the crowd and the Clarets started to really find their rhythm.

Sean Dyche’s decision to switch the wings on which Lennon and Johann Berg-Gudmundsson were playing at half time – coupled with the arrival of Matt Lowton for the injured Phil Bardsley at the break – gave us a different type of impetus.

And it was Lowton and JBG who combined for an equaliser Pep Guardiola will have been proud of – although maybe not the way Kyle Walker switched off to let the Icelandic winger score!

Scoring late in games – like we have done for the last two matches – gives teams a real bounce going into the next game and I’m hoping we head to South Wales to take on Swansea on Saturday with some of that bounce.

They’ll certainly have plenty of momentum having stuck eight past Notts County on Tuesday and having been on a decent run in the last couple of weeks.

But the arrival of Lennon – and the reintroduction of Lawton – should give us the edge I feel.

We have to come off this winless run at some point so why not this weekend?

I think it’s fair to say that we haven’t always had the rub of the green at Swansea so how sweet it would be to bring this sticky patch to an end with three points in the principality.