Scott Parker vows that Burnley will keep fighting after fifth defeat in a row

Scott Parker sounded a defiant message as he vowed his Burnley side would keep fighting after a fifth consecutive Premier League defeat left them second bottom of the table.

Daniel Munoz headed in the only goal just before half-time as Crystal Palace edged a poor game 1-0, with Burnley seeing Jacob Bruun Larsen hit the crossbar and a handful of late chances go begging as they failed to score for a fourth out of seven home league games this term.

Turf Moor felt edgy and nervous as Burnley fell short once again but Parker insisted he was not worried about the current run of form as he was happy with what his side had shown him.

“I’m not concerned,” he said. “All I’m concerned about is maintaining, keep learning, keep pushing. We’re fighters. I’m a fighter and this group are fighters. This football club – this is what we are.

“This team at times represents what we are as a football club really. We knew the challenge ahead of us. These players probably didn’t know it and that’s my job to explain to them but this is part of the journey and part of what you need to be.

“I’ve got a group here that fight. That may not be enough but my God when the curtain comes down at the end of this season we’ll all be judged. Between now and then we’ll fight and do everything in our power to try and be successful and I thought the team represented that tonight.”

The statistics backed up Parker’s argument given Burnley had 11 attempts at goal to Palace’s three, but only three of them – Bruun Larsen’s strike, a curling Jaidon Anthony effort in the first half, and a header from Armando Broja hacked cleared after a Dean Henderson mistake – looked really threatening.

“For large parts of this game in terms of how we went about it we did everything