SEAN Dyche hailed Ashley Barnes and Tom Heaton after the duo played key roles in Burnley’s 1-0 home win over Southampton.

Heaton saved Dusan Tadic’s penalty before Barnes’ deflected effort secured victory and moved the Clarets out of the relegation zone.

“You need a scratch of luck and we got that with the goal but it can’t be said with the penalty save because I think that was an outstanding save rather than a miss,” Dyche said.

“I think Tom’s more than just a penalty specialist, he’s been recognised as a very good goalkeeper.

“Ashley was terrific at QPR last week, I only took him off because he’d given everything and I thought he just ran out of energy.

“He can be an awkward customer, he’s a newcomer and people would not know much about it and he really does stick at it, his stats are through the roof.”

Burnley recorded another clean sheet as Southampton could not find a way through, despite Ben Mee being forced off midway through the second half.

“I thought there were some good flashes of good play and then a resilience at the end to get our fifth clean sheet in 15 games, which is a marker in itself at this level,” Dyche said.

“We have a way of being resilient enough to get wins and results, and today we got the win.

“Ben Mee has been ill for two days, that’s why he went off, but he delivered a fine performance.”