BURNLEY took confidence from Mame Biram Diouf's glaring miss for Stoke on Sunday, according to Match of the Day pundit Kevin Kilbane.

The Potters already led against the Clarets when Diouf failed to convert when unmarked 10 yards from goal just before half-time.

That goal gave Sean Dyche's side a lifeline and they took it in the second half with a much improved showing, with Ashley Barnes eventually netting the equaliser.

"This is the turning point in the game I feel, if this goes in from Diouf it's a totally different second half," Kilbane said on Match of the Day 2.

"Paul Lambert recognises that, he immediately goes to Diouf to try and pick his head up. That's where the game changed.

"Burnley gained a lot of confidence from that. Sean Dyche changed things at half-time, he got his team on the front foot."

Kilbane felt Butland could have come from the cross that led to the equaliser, but said there was only one winner in the game once the Clarets had levelled.

"I felt Jack Butland could have done better, he could have come out, when James Tarkowski is heading that he's only three or four years out, he could be coming out to claim that initially," he said.

"He gets a bit unlucky once he does make the save, he palms it back into Ashley Barnes.

"The chances flowed of the back of it and there was only one winner in the second half. It changed the outlook for Burnley and they started to force the issue themselves.

"If anyone was going to win it in the second half it was Burnley."