MANAGER Owen Coyle admitted Burnley would have got more than they deserved had substitute Chris Eagles snatched a stoppage time winner at Norwich City.

For the second game in succession, the Clarets had been forced to come from behind to earn a point, after Steven Thompson cancelled out Jamie Cureton’s opener with his 10th goal of the season before the break.

Burnley’s Brian Jensen was kept the busier of the two goalkeepers, however, as Eagles had the chance to snatch all three points at the death.

But after playing second fiddle to the battling Canaries for much of the game, Coyle confessed: “That would have been a travesty.

“I fancied Chris to win it at the end. Knowing the quality he has, then as soon as he is one-on-one with the goalkeeper it is going to be a goal.

“I don’t know if it bobbled up or not, but he had a terrific impact when he came on and and when we get him over that chest infection, then it augurs well for the run-in.

“My biggest disappointment overall is that we never got to the standards we have set previously.

“But we have no divine right to think we can go anywhere and win three points. We have to earn it, and I don’t think we did.

“But that’s another game unbeaten, and as long as that continues it will keep us up near the top of the table and ready to push on.

“There’s an awful lot for us to look forward to and an awful lot for us to play for. It’s another game unbeaten; we had a terrific unbeaten run earlier in the season and we want to go to the do that again. The longer that continues that will keep us up at the top end of the league and really pushing on.

“I don’t believe any game in this Championship and in the cup ties is beyond us.

“We know we’ve not got the biggest squad in the world but we’ve got a group of players who, even when they’re not at their maximum in terms of performance levels they’re still prepared to run until they drop for you.

“It was game 45 today and they still keep going; even in the four minutes of added time we were the team pushing on, as much as we’d had a fair bit of pressure to deal with. We weren’t content with a draw, we wanted to go on and win the game.”

Coyle added: “We believe in what we’re doing as a group, we believe we’ve got very good players that have shown they can stand toe-to-toe with the rest and if we can get them consistently playing to their maximum then we know we can win games in the Championship.

“It’s fine talking about being in the top six, but the important thing about being in the top six is being there on the last day of the season and we’ll do everything we can to try to do that. Come the first week of May we’ll tell you how we’ve fared.”