Verdict on Burnley's 4-0 victory against Sheffield Wednesday

Burnley FC writer Matt Scrafton delivers his verdict on the 4-0 win against Sheffield Wednesday on February 21, 2025.

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00:00Here at a noisy turf war where Burnley have just thrashed Sheffield Wednesday 4-0 in a

00:09peculiar game really for much of it. Burnley were the second best side. Wednesday caused

00:16them a lot of problems. I'm not sure how they didn't score, especially in the first half

00:21Burnley just didn't get going. Burnley to their credit defended really well but yeah

00:26it's a combination of a good defending and poor finishing from Wednesday and it's a 12th

00:31clean sheet now which is, yeah, I'm not sure what more to say about the defending. Second

00:36half the carriage were just utterly clinical really but it was goal. Mano Benson's finish

00:43at the end, right foot top corner that probably sums it up. Mark Sedgwick's made a difference

00:49from the start. He bought that quarter they've been lacking all season. That ability to create

00:54something from nothing. Once he got the second goal from Josh Brownhill, straight off the

00:59bench. It's 48 seconds after coming on, his first touch. Burnley went to another level

01:04and played some really lovely stuff but up until that point it had been a really difficult

01:09game here. Wednesday made it really difficult for them. But as it is, it's 4-0. The scoreline

01:14we're not really seeing at turf war this season and the gap now to top two is back down to

01:18two points ahead of that intriguing game at Bramall Lane on Monday night as the top two

01:23face one another. So yeah, exactly the sort of result Burnley needed to reignite their

01:28potion push.