Phelan taps into ‘Fergie Time’ for Hull rescue act
MIKE PHELAN borrowed his mentor’s ‘Fergie Time’ as Robert Snodgrass nicked a point for Hull City at Turf Moor.
Steven Defour looked like deciding this clash in Burnley’s favour with a second-half piledriver but with the clock ticking to 95 minutes, Snodgrass bent a brilliant free-kick home for 1-1.
Phelan is no stranger to late, late goals having worked under Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. For the caretaker manager, this was the perfect way to take his side’s seventh point.
‘You’ve got to get as much out of this game as you possibly can,’ said Phelan. ‘We left it late and it went in our favour this time.
‘It was pleasing — we went about our jobs really well. Normally Hull would have come to games at Turf Moor and lost. We carried on and kept going.’
This match between newlypromoted teams was severely lacking in quality until the interventions of Defour and then Snodgrass for the two goals. David Meyler saw a shot that went across Tom Heaton come back off the post before Defour slammed Burnley into the lead.
The Belgian, a £7.5million summer signing from Anderlecht, advanced on the Hull defence and drove his shot into the bottom corner from 25 yards.
Curtis Davies hit the crossbar with a header for Hull won a free-kick just outside the area. Snodgrass punished the defensive error by curling his delivery beyond the helpless Heaton.