Scott Parker was left to rue a big missed opportunity for his Burnley side following an improved display against Bournemouth.

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The Clarets were much better than what they showed in their last outing, the 2-0 defeat to Everton before their mini-break.

But it still wasn’t enough to claim a long-overdue home win, meaning his side set an unwanted club record of 11 straight home league games without a victory.

While the gap to safety is cut to eight points, their relegation rivals are yet to play and that gap could well increase over the weekend.

“It’s definitely a missed opportunity today,” Parker admitted.

“With the general tone around this at this present moment in time, with a win here probably on reflection, it would have been an unbelievable performance, so that's how I would be framing that.

“Defensively, I thought we looked pretty solid. We nullified them and we just didn't manage to get our noses in front and do what we did, so a little bit of a missed opportunity for sure.”

Scott Parker thanks the fans following the 0-0 draw against Bournemouth at Turf Moor. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

After surviving a nervy first 10 minutes, Burnley were the better side in the first-half and came within a whisker of opening the scoring when Jaidon Anthony crashed a close-range effort against the crossbar.

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The second-half was much more of a quiet affair, with neither side able to find that elusive winner.

“I thought we really imposed ourselves on the game [in the first half],” Parker added. “We set about it, but we just weren’t clinical in our moments.

“I thought that was probably the overriding factor in the first half, because we had some big chances or even chances that are not big, but in this division are big and we didn't manage to obviously get our noses in front when we were asserting that pressure.

“Second half, the game becomes a little bit more open and we have our chances, they have theirs, and probably both teams on the day weren't clinical enough in their moments, hence why it was a 0-0 draw.”

Parker added: “I thought we started a little bit edgy. Obviously the stadium was quiet and you could feel that, I thought everyone was probably a little bit edgy.

“And then I thought Jaidon's first chance was a big chance and we then grew ourselves into the game, so it's just a shame that obviously we didn't take those moments.”

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