ANDY Farrell has urged his Burnley youngsters to learn from their humbling at the hands of the Met Police in the FA Youth Cup third round.

The Clarets were beaten on penalties to exit the competition at the first time of asking to opponents who had already come through five rounds to reach this stage.

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Burnley led through Khius Metz in the first half, but Luke Brant equalised from the spot to send the tie to extra time.

Josh Dolling resorted the Clarets’ advantage on 98 minutes before a 120th-minute equaliser from Ben Marret sent the game to penalties.

And it was the Police who came out on top, with Mark Howarth missing the decisive penalty at 6-5 after Shaun Hobson had earlier missed when he needed to score send Burnley through.

“We just have to move on now and take whatever positives we can from it,” said Farrell.

“I’m sure they will take bigger knocks in the footballing career so it’s important to learn from it.

“Everyone was sat in the dressing room after the match very disappointed, more with their performance more than anything else.

“The result is obviously not something we wanted but we just have to move on and that’s football.”

Farrell felt his side had been the better team at Turf Moor but paid the price for failing to take their chances and extend their lead in the opening period.

“They had a few glimpses and chances here and there, but the majority of the chances fell for us, especially in the first half, and their goalkeeper pulled off numerous saves.

“We should have come in at half time two or three goals up and that should have killed the game off. That would have given us the confidence to pass the ball around in the second half.

“We didn’t start the second half well. If you come back out and take your foot off the pedal, you are going to be on the back foot and they did that by equalising to make it 1-1.

“Their goalkeeper had a great game. Tony Aghayere pulled off a great save, tipping one onto the crossbar late on, but we just needed that extra goal and get a cushion but we just couldn’t quite get it.”