Burnley’s great European adventure, more than half a century in the making, stuttered on last night in slightly unconvincing fashion but only after Jack Cork’s clinical header and an Ashley Barnes penalty finally killed off Aberdeen’s intractable resistance in extra time.
Victory carried Sean Dyche’s team through to next week’s third qualifying-round tie with Istanbul Basaksehir, a hurried introduction to life in the Europa League in which the Burnley manager will travel to Turkey, negotiate transfer deadline day on Thursday and then return to take on Southampton in their opening Premier League fixture on Sunday lunchtime.
“That’s a great day to have transfer deadline day,” Dyche joked. “But it’s just the travelling really, the rest of it is just games and if I was a