DISAPPOINTED Barnsley boss Nigel Spackman felt his side deserved a point at Turf Moor -- but was left to rue a number of missed chances as the Clarets triumped 2-1.

The most obvious came in injury-time when new signing Isiah Rankin had only Nik Michopoulos to beat but was thwarted by the Burnley keeper.

"I think he had a good chance to score. The keeper made a good save but most strikers in that position will think they should score. Isiah Rankin thinks he should have scored and that would have given us a point and I think we deserved one overall," said Spackman, whose first two games in charge have ended in defeat.

However, Barnsley showed enough to suggest that they can stay above the drop zone and Spackman was left to wish that all his players had shown the accuracy of new boy Steve Hayward, who pulled a goal back on his first appearance since signing from Fulham.

"I thought it was a cracking goal and we put Burnley under a lot of pressure towards the end and deserved something out of it. Before it was 1-0 we had three good chances but when you are struggling a bit the confidence goes with strikers.

"But you have got to put your chances away and if we had put them away we would have got something from the game. I thought we played well. We took the game to Burnley early on and we had several chances which we didn't finish off. We were a bit sloppy and a bit shot-shy in front of goal," Spackman added.

The Tykes were also hindered by the 58th-minute dismissal of defender Chris Morgan for pulling down Ian Moore when he was clean through.

Spackman didn't dwell on the decision, although felt there may have been some room for doubt.

He said: "Goals win football matches but the sending off didn't help. It looked like a sending off but Chris Morgan said he didn't touch the lad.

"But the thing that interests me is that the referee didn't give it. It was the assistant who gave it and I don't see how he can see from so far away that there was contact, so I'll have to have a look at that one on the video."