SEAN Dyche was frustrated his Burnley side failed to rescue a point from their defeat to Newcastle United on Monday night but admitted his side are conceding 'too many soft goals.'

The Clarets were two down inside the opening 15 minutes at Turf Moor after Federico Fernandez's effort deflected off Ben Mee before Ciaran Clark doubled the Magpies' lead with a free header.

The defeat leaves Burnley one point and one place above the Premier League bottom three ahead of Saturday's crunch trip to fellow strugglers Crystal Palace.

Dyche felt it was a case of so close but yet so far against Rafa Benitez's side.

“I think we deserved something, I think a lot of aspects of the game I was very pleased with, and certainly the amount of quality chances," said the Clarets chief,

“It’s not easy to do that in the Premier League, and I’ve said many times we’ve been close to being effective with those chances, and tonight they were really good chances.

“And I’m pleased with the way we mixed our play to make those chances.

“Obviously the frustration is we didn’t get a result, and we need to get on the right side of the margins, but we also need a scratch of luck - their first goal gets a hell of a deflection, and that would be a pleasant thing to happen to us.

“The second goal is a poor goal, we’ve given too many soft goals away this year, we know that, but that is getting tighter, for the rest of the game, they didn’t really have too much.

“And the mentality I’m very pleased with, the fact is we’ve kept going and going, searching for a chance to not only draw, but try and win the game."

Burnley halved the deficit thanks to a brilliant Sam Vokes header five minutes before the break and had chances in the second half but Newcastle also threatened on the counter with Matt Ritchie missing an open goal and Ayoze Perez striking the post.

Dyche added: “Woody’s had chances, Vokesey has, even in the dying seconds, so I think the character of the side is coming back, the energy of the side was very good, and some of the quality, some of the play was really good.

“It was a high pass count for us, which often happens against a 5-4-1 playing on the counter, and at the end, still that final pass, that final moment of quality, but there was more of that tonight."

On the goals Burnley conceded, Dyche added: "I thought we started with the ball really well, we were dominating possession, and we get a really poor goal against us, a lucky goal to be fair. We dealt with the first part, and it gets a big deflection.

“The second goal was really poor, that’s stuff we’re good at. It’s a good ball in, to be fair, and a good header, but I think we deal with that most times, and particularly last season.

“On the other hand, after that, I thought the mentality got stronger and stronger, and we rightly scored a good goal, could have had an equaliser.

“And second half we’ve done a lot to try and affect the game, and come away frustrated we haven’t at least got a 2-2."