Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Burnley: Clarets surge again to high of the Championship because of Jaidon Anthony and Josh Brownhill targets

No one appears fairly certain how good Burnley will be this season, least of all themselves, however this win moved them menacingly to the Championship summit.

For a crew who’ve spent seven of the previous eight years within the Premier League, their lofty early-season place ought to come as no actual shock. Nonetheless, the style of victory was spectacular.

Jaidon Anthony’s medical Thirty seventh-minute opener and captain Josh Brownhill’s clincher shortly after half-time confirmed Scott Parker’s males to be in a distinct class to their hosts.

Parker, appointed after Vincent Kompany jumped ship for Bayern Munich, noticed his facet lengthen their unbeaten league run to seven video games. The Burnley boss, who joined his gamers in fist-pumping in entrance of three,000 jubilant away followers, mentioned: ‘I’m very happy however proper now the league desk means completely nothing to me.

‘We’re a model new crew — virtually eight or 9 weeks previous — and have carried out extremely effectively thus far, however there shall be bumps within the street forward so we have to construct a siege mentality. I assumed we had management over 90 minutes and in sure moments we needed to rise up; in different moments we confirmed our high quality and regarded an actual risk.’

Sheffield Wednesday had taken seven factors from their earlier three video games, but Burnley withstood all the things that was thrown at them and took their probabilities with aplomb.

The Owls couldn’t discover the contact of high quality wanted to unlock a visiting defence who saved a fourth successive clear sheet.

After Ike Ugbo headed wastefully over, Burnley led when Anthony latched on to CJ Egan-Riley’s cross to flee the clutches of Wednesday’s static again line earlier than rifling previous James Beadle.

It was Anthony’s first objective for the membership and Brownhill, who was excellent in midfield, fired house his fifth of the marketing campaign after Zian Flemming’s preliminary effort was blocked.

Parker added: ‘I used to be happy for Jaidon. I labored with him at Bournemouth and he’s an awesome professional.’

Owls’ German boss Danny Rohl mentioned: ‘We knew beforehand that Burnley didn’t want many probabilities — that’s why they’re high of the league.’