'I don't understand': Burnley's Lorenz Assignon addresses controversial red card in social media post after Chelsea draw

The Clarets had to play for over 45 minutes with 10 men on Saturday after Assignon was shown a second yellow card in bizarre circumstances on the stroke of half-time.

Assignon, who had already been booked, was harshly adjudged to have hauled Mykhailo Mudryk to the floor as the Chelsea man attempted to get in behind Burnley’s backline.

Much to Burnley’s frustration and anger, Darren England pointed to the penalty spot despite there appearing to be minimal contact.

Before Cole Palmer coolly dispatched the resulting spot kick, Clarets boss Vincent Kompany was also shown a straight red card after venting his frustrations to the fourth official on the touchline.

Remarkably, Burnley managed to fight back not once, but twice with 10 men to draw 2-2 thanks to goals from Josh Cullen and Dara O’Shea.

But as for Assignon, he will now be forced to miss Tuesday night’s crucial encounter with Wolves through suspension.

Addressing the incident on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, Assignon praised his Burnley teammates for how they responded to the controversial setback.

“There are some decisions I don’t understand and I have to accept them,” he wrote.

"The team played a brilliant game with 10 and I will learn from this and make sure to come back stronger to help the team achieve our goals.”

Burnley now find themselves just four points adrift of safety with eight games remaining.