Gazo: What a win. Sometimes you have to win ugly but once again defensively we showed our resilience. Another flawless display by Martin Dubravka. Superb goals to win the game too.
Shaun: What a performance from Kyle Walker. His reading of the game is immense and the interception and run forward before our second goal was superb.
Winnie: A mixture that showed training had made vast improvements, accompanied by good luck (e.g. Leeds hitting the woodwork) and sheer total brilliance in the two goals. Dubravka and Walker displayed their class. All in all, each player had a good day on the same day -as we know this is not always the case. Now we know Burnley can do it and Scott Parker can help with the team's consistency. That's the key.
Leeds fans
Stephen: Probably the worst performance so far this season. We didn't close down as fast as the opposition, we weren't as clean with our passing and we didn't get back and defend like they did.
Mark: This is NOT good enough. Dominating possession counts for absolutely nothing when the opposition are comfortable, and Burnley were very comfortable. If Farke can't find a way to make that squad more incisive and braver in the final third, then Leeds need to find a manager that can. Quickly.
Ron: In the transfer window, Leeds got two strikers on frees - never was the saying "you get what you pay for" more appropriate. In defence and midfield, they went for players with height and "physical presence", but so far there has been no sign of aerial dominance either at the front or the back. The future looks ominous!
Burnley 2-0 Leeds: What Parker said published at 17:49 BST 18 October
17:49 BST 18 October
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Scott Parker spoke to BBC Match of the Day after Burnley's victory against Leeds: "I thought the performance was everything we planned. They are a hugely competitive team and we experienced that last year, we went toe to toe with Leeds throughout last year. I thought our performance was everything we needed to take three points.
"We've tried to be flexible in our structures and we have worked tirelessly to do that. We swapped to a back four today and tried to have more attackers on the pitch and first half we took our moments and got a good goal. Second half we had to suffer a little bit and again you go into reserves when you need to dig a bit deep to get the result and the second goal gave us some oxygen. I'm immensely proud of the team.
"We spent a long ten days during the international break highlighting times where we have fallen short on that [concentration]. One thing you can never point a finger at this team for, and I will never point the finger for this, is effort, desire, passion and commitment. These players give that every single week.
"We have probably lacked a bit of nous at times in certain moments but today that game was every bit of that. I don't care what coach is standing here, when there is 10-15 minutes to go in that game there isn't a plan. You can't influence it from the sidelines. You need your players to understand what's needed. You can bring the best structures and formations in the world, the facts are that you need players to go to places that you can't coach."
Did you know?
Lesley Ugochukwu has scored in consecutive Premier League appearances (two goals), having only scored once in his first 43 appearances for Chelsea, Southampton and the Clarets combined.
Analysis: Clarets rediscover defensive soliditypublished at 17:32 BST 18 October
17:32 BST 18 October
Matthew Howarth BBC Sport journalist
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Burnley have looked good in spells this season, but a run of four defeats in five league games left them desperate for three points against the side who beat them to the Championship title on goal difference last season.
Manager Scott Parker not only made three changes from the 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa, but also switched to a back four for the first time this term - a move that paid off as his team kept Leeds at bay after half-time to claim victory.
Burnley's first-half opener was chiefly down to Kyle Walker's magnificent inswinging delivery into Lesley Ugochukwu, who was left with the simple task of guiding the ball inside Karl Darlow's right-hand post from close range.
But a number of Burnley players looked much more comfortable in Parker's new system, including 21-year-old Ugochukwu and holding midfielders Josh Cullen and Florentino, whose distribution was excellent throughout.
The home side failed to register an attempt between Ugochukwu's opener and Loum Tchaouna's second-half screamer - a venomous 30-yard shot into the top corner - but a second clean sheet of the season was very much a step in the right direction for a side who conceded only 16 times in the Championship last term.
The hard-fought win lifts Burnley above Nottingham Forest and out of the bottom three.
Burnley v Leeds: Team news published at 14:09 BST 18 October
14:09 BST 18 October
Scott Parker makes three changes to the Burnley side that lost at Aston Villa before the international break.
Zian Flemming, Lesley Ugochukwu and Jacob Bruun Larsen come in, while Jaiden Anthony is fit to start after suffering a knock at Villa Park a fortnight ago.
Loum Tchaouna and Josh Laurent are among the substitutes, but Lyle Foster misses out after suffering a dead leg on international duty with South Africa.
You can also listen to today's 5 Live Premier League commentaries on most smart speakers. Just say "ask BBC Sounds to play Fulham v Arsenal", for instance.
Sutton's predictions: Burnley v Leedspublished at 11:06 BST 18 October
11:06 BST 18 October
Burnley have been a bit unlucky to lose four out of four on the road so far, but they really need to get something at home, especially against another promoted team.
The Clarets beat Sunderland at Turf Moor at the start of the season, which is their only league win to date.
Scott Parker's side have been competitive in most of their other games too but so have Leeds, who have scored the same amount of goals as Burnley - seven - but feel like they carry a bit more of a threat.
This is going to be very tight. I don't like going for too many draws, but this fixture finished 0-0 in the Championship last season and I am going for the same outcome this time.
Burnley v Leeds United: Key stats and talking pointspublished at 19:42 BST 17 October
19:42 BST 17 October
Burnley and Leeds battled it out for the Championship title last season - now they face each other at Turf Moor in a Premier League clash which could have implications come the end of the season.
BBC Sport takes a look at some of the key themes ahead of their meeting.
This may only be Burnley and Leeds' eighth league game of the season, but this game between two promoted sides already has the whiff of a crucial six-pointer.
Leeds have made a better start to life back in the Premier League than Burnley so far, and will have spent the international break smarting from coming away with nothing from their last match against Tottenham.
Their narrow 2-1 defeat will have hurt given how well they competed against the Europa League winners. However, Spurs' extra bit of quality, shown by the likes of Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons, proved to be the difference between the sides.
Where the goals are going to come from remains a hot topic for Leeds fans and a tally of just seven from seven top-flight games tells its own story. Winger Noah Okafor is their only player to score more than once this season, and while Dominic Calvert-Lewin has led the line well as the focal point of their attack, familiar questions remain about his ability to take chances.
Maximum points from this fixture and next week's home match with West Ham will be seen as a must by boss Daniel Farke, who has named the same starting XI in each of their last four matches.
For Burnley, one win from seven games represents a worrying start.
Only West Ham have conceded more top-flight goals than the Clarets' 15, which is remarkably only one less than Scott Parker's side let in across their 46 games in the Championship last season. They could become only the second side in Football League history after Liverpool in the 1894-95 campaign to concede their previous season's tally within their first eight games.
Two things Parker would like to see his side have more of is a) the ball and b) a lead. Their average possession stands at just 35.3%, while they have held a lead for an average of just eight per cent of their seven matches so far this season.
They have been in contention in many of those games but Parker has bemoaned his side's lack of focus at crucial junctures:
"There is a theme at the moment," he said after the loss to Villa. "We were hugely competitive, but switched off in certain moments."
Their one win this season came against another promoted club in Sunderland, something they will be desperate to repeat against Leeds as they look to get their season up and running
One statistic that neither Farke or Parker will look upon fondly is that they occupy the bottom two spots for the lowest Premier League points-per-game average of any manager to have taken charge of 50 or more matches.
Man Utd giving up the best chances and Burnley the mostpublished at 09:02 BST 17 October
09:02 BST 17 October
Chris Collinson BBC Sport statistician
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When we look at how teams are defending so far this season, Arsenal and Newcastle have been so impressive because they are giving up both the fewest shots per game and the hardest chances to score on average.
But as the graphic shows, there are two teams that stand apart from all the rest for having key defensive problems: Manchester United and Burnley.
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If you look simply at the number of shots that teams are giving up, Manchester United look good defensively since only Arsenal and Newcastle are facing fewer than their 9.1 per game.
But not all shots are the same and Ruben Amorim's side are currently giving up by far the easiest chances to score in the league, averaging 0.16 xG per shot faced.
Burnley meanwhile are facing by far the most shots at 18.4 per game, four more than any other side, although thankfully for them the quality of those chances is not that high.
Parker on injuries, 'ambition' and what gives him 'massive encouragement'published at 16:04 BST 16 October
16:04 BST 16 October
Nicola Pearson BBC Sport journalist
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Burnley boss Scott Parker has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Leeds United at Turf Moor (kick-off 15:00 BST).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
Parker confirmed that Zeki Amdouni is still "some time away" after his cruciate ligament injury but he is "moving in the right direction". Jordan Beyer will also not be "in contention for the foreseeable" after a set-back with his hamstring injury.
Connor Roberts needing a "little longer" to recover is a "big setback" for the team, but there is "better news" on Lyle Foster, who withdrew from the South Africa national squad, as it "seems to be a dead leg".
On the statement from the ownership after they completed a takeover of La Liga club Espanyol: "They are the comments of someone who is hugely ambitious. That ambition is clearly there and I sense that ambition. That ambition for me is no different. Sometimes you are part of that journey and an early part of it. They are the owners' ambitions, and when I sit down with him I've got my own ambitions as well for this football club."
He added: "The main aim at first was to get out of the Championship and we did that. The next part and the ambition for us is to stay in this division. The longer part of that is down the road a little bit."
Parker believes his side have given themselves "a brilliant opportunity" to meet their target of staying in the Premier League after facing "huge challenges" at the start. He said: "What gives me massive encouragement is how competitive we have been. There is still a lot of learning and we have fallen short a little bit. I don't think we've fallen short by wide margins, and we need to continue that - we need to keep learning and keep growing."
On the key things his side need to improve on: "Looking back in the first group of games we have had, we have probably just lacked at certain moments in concentration and a focus. It is what has just let ourselves down. Maybe there is a focus there we need to highlight."
The Burnley boss feels his side have "been a real threat in our way", despite questions around their goalscoring ability. Parker added: "I understand in the world we live in, and certainly the world I live in and us as players, you have one game where you may not be that threat or you have only had three shots and that gets magnified."
What expected goals tell us about the start to the Premier League seasonpublished at 09:04 BST 16 October
09:04 BST 16 October
Chris Collinson BBC Sport statistician
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The Premier League table is starting to take shape and while results are obviously what matter most, they don't tell the whole story in terms of how teams have been playing so far.
Expected goals (xG) tells us how much teams have been dominating games by creating lots of good chances up front and restricting opponents to few, bad ones at the back.
Penalties are excluded because they distort a team's numbers on how threatening or vulnerable they are in general, especially at this early stage.
Below is a graphic showing how good teams have been in attack and defence, with the most dominant teams in the top-right corner and the least impressive in the bottom-left corner.
Arsenal and Manchester City have been the most dominant sides, with the Gunners having the best defence and fourth-best attack and City the joint-best attack and fourth-best defence.
High-flying Crystal Palace are the only side to rival City's attacking threat, while Newcastle are living up to their name by being almost as impregnable at the back as Arsenal.
Both Manchester United and Chelsea have one of the top five attacks in the league but worryingly also rank in the bottom five defensively.
Liverpool's back-to-back defeats following five straight wins gives a more accurate picture of how they have been playing, while Tottenham have needed to be very efficient to make up for their lack of dominance in games.
Aston Villa's early-season struggles are no longer to do with finishing - they have now scored six non-penalty goals from an xG of 6.0 - but simply because they have not been playing well.
While promoted sides Leeds and Sunderland have adapted quite well to the top-flight, Burnley have struggled to make the jump so far with both the worst attack and the worst defence.
'No need to panic... not yet, anyway'published at 09:30 BST 14 October
09:30 BST 14 October
Natalie Bromley Fan writer
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Burnley have had a horrendous set of fixtures to start off this Premier League campaign.
The Clarets have just four points from seven games, with those coming from a win against Sunderland and a draw against Nottingham Forest. Both at home.
I would suggest that Burnley are on exactly the number of points I expected them to be on at this stage of the season. There is no need to panic - certainly not yet, anyway!
We play Leeds next - at home - which is going to be the acid test. It is a game I hope will be significantly more entertaining than the tentative affair at Turf Moor during the Championship campaign, as neither side blinked in their quest for automatic promotion.
If we lose heavily to the Whites - which, to be clear, I don't believe we will - then I will concede that we are perhaps the most vulnerable of each of the promoted club.s Leeds will value a point at Turf Moor. The Clarets need three. Expect an open and proactive approach from Scott Parker's side.
The mood in the Burnley camp seems positive. The players appear to be enjoying the challenge, and Parker seems to have everyone's feet on the ground.
We are told that Marcus Edwards is close to a full return, which is welcome news. I spoke last week about the side lacking in a credible threat when they do manage to counter, and Edwards could well provide the spark we need to create more opportunities.
We also need strength from the bench - many of our mistakes in the latter stages of games have come from fatigue.
The more quality we can bring on for the final 10 minutes and injury time, the better!
Burnley owners complete acquisition of Espanyol stakepublished at 12:43 BST 9 October
12:43 BST 9 October
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Burnley's owners have completed the purchase of a majority stake in Spanish club Espanyol.
It was confirmed in July that a deal had been agreed and on Thursday, Velocity Sports Partners, led by Clarets chairman Alan Pace, announced the acquisition following an extensive period of due diligence.
In a statement, Pace said: "Our role is not to replace legacy but to build upon it, with care, with clarity and with purpose.
"This is not about ownership; it's about stewardship. Burnley will remain Burnley. Espanyol will remain Espanyol.
"Each club will retain its own leadership, identity, independence and decision-making, run by its own people, for its own supporters."
Velocity Sport Limited, the sports investment arm of ALK Capital, took over Burnley in December 2020.
The Clarets are 18th in the Premier League in their first season back in England's top division, while Espanyol are currently ninth in the Spanish top flight.
Is it time to put the back five idea to bed?published at 09:21 BST 7 October
09:21 BST 7 October
Natalie Bromley Fan writer
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Scott Parker's experiment with five at the back was a nice idea - and I get why it was appealing against some of the stronger sides in the league - but it's time to put it to bed.
It's not stopping the goals from going in and it's having a more fundamental impact on our own game.
The first is the level to which our midfield is left exposed when teams seek to counter us. The opening goal for Donyell Malen at Villa Park was a beautiful illustration of this, when Boubacar Kamara by-passed the entire Burnley team with one pass! Would that pass still have happened with more claret shirts beefing up midfield? Perhaps. But there is certainly plenty of space for teams to create the opportunities they need to score.
The second was probably more evident in previous games, particularly against Manchester United and Liverpool, than at Aston Villa, but it's the lack of opportunities we can create when we counter. Too often, we're left with no threat in the final third, and promising balls fritter away to nothing.
Not to mention the fact that we've got one of the best right-backs the Premier League has ever seen in Kyle Walker, and I'm not entirely sure we're getting the best out of him.
We've had some really hard fixtures in these opening seven games, but the Clarets have to start getting some points on the board. Perhaps a tweak in formation is the key to unlocking that?
Chris: Great to see Donyell Malen and Ollie Watkins working together and goals coming now, still a bit wobbly and fragile towards the end. But heading up in the table and confidence returning to team and a couple of the players.
Tony: Clearly Malen was the star and overall a good result, but we're still nowhere near as fluid or balanced as last season and we've yet to be tested by a top side. Heading in the right direction and cautiously optimistic about the future - unlike two weeks ago!
Mossy: Much improved, but let Burnley back in with very poor concentration on their goal. Much harder tests await next with Spurs, Man City and Liverpool. They will really show us where we are. Don't understand why Harvey Elliot isn't getting a look in, not even off the bench. Really don't want to waste his time. Great finishing from Malen but just wish Rogers could get a goal or two for his confidence. UTV!
Andrew: Three wins in seven days. Not a bad effort for a team still getting up to speed. Malen looked very useful.
Burnley fans
Terry: Two good strikes from Villa - apart from that not much else. Need to sort out the defence which was our strength last year. Burnley need more bite up front.
Anthony: I'm not convinced this Burnley team has enough to stay up. We're competitive in most games but don't have the firepower to kill teams off. Have we a striker that can score 10-15? Nope. Martin Dubravka has been one of our best player so far this season - that says it all for me.
Graham: Competetent but uninspiring. Burnley started quite aggressively but plateaued after the first Villa goal and showed little threat until too late. We displayed our long-standing weakness - no great forward threat, and, after Jaidon Anthony went off, the little threat we showed reduced until the final 20 minutes. Armando Broja was brought in to solve the problem but shows little to inspire. His one chance, though offside, was completely missed. Hannibal, though at times frenetic, does bring some much needed urgency and drive but he remained an unused substitute.
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