Owen Coyle has described Burnley's early season form, which has seen them beat Manchester United and now Everton in the space of a few days as a 'dream start' to their Premier League campaign.
The Clarets followed up their win over the champions on Wednesday with a battling performance in their 1-0 win over the Toffees at Turf Moor on Sunday afternoon.
The newly promoted side won courtesy of a deflected Wade Elliott strike but had to ride their luck once again as Louis Saha placed a penalty wide of the post for the visitors following a similar miss by Michael Carrick during midweek.
Although early, Burnley are sitting seventh in the table with two wins from two home games.
Coyle commented: 'We certainly never envisioned six points with Manchester United and Everton at home, the two games being this week.
'But we believed if we worked hard and got the quality that we have on show and displayed that, we'd have a chance.'
Everton manager David Moyes, who has suffered a nightmare start to the season with back-to-back domestic defeats and a loss to Rapid Vienna in their Europa Cup qualifier on Thursday, blamed his players for the defeat - claiming that they did not do enough with the possession they had.
'I'd expect to come to Burnley and win, so I'm disappointed,' remarked Moyes.
'We were poor in the opening 20 minutes or so. I thought we improved as the game went on but still not enough to cause them enough problems.
'I didn't think we were in control of the game that much. It's a bad time to come here, right at the start of the season, because they have a great deal of momentum coming up from the Championship.'
The Clarets followed up their win over the champions on Wednesday with a battling performance in their 1-0 win over the Toffees at Turf Moor on Sunday afternoon.
The newly promoted side won courtesy of a deflected Wade Elliott strike but had to ride their luck once again as Louis Saha placed a penalty wide of the post for the visitors following a similar miss by Michael Carrick during midweek.
Although early, Burnley are sitting seventh in the table with two wins from two home games.
Coyle commented: 'We certainly never envisioned six points with Manchester United and Everton at home, the two games being this week.
'But we believed if we worked hard and got the quality that we have on show and displayed that, we'd have a chance.'
Everton manager David Moyes, who has suffered a nightmare start to the season with back-to-back domestic defeats and a loss to Rapid Vienna in their Europa Cup qualifier on Thursday, blamed his players for the defeat - claiming that they did not do enough with the possession they had.
'I'd expect to come to Burnley and win, so I'm disappointed,' remarked Moyes.
'We were poor in the opening 20 minutes or so. I thought we improved as the game went on but still not enough to cause them enough problems.
'I didn't think we were in control of the game that much. It's a bad time to come here, right at the start of the season, because they have a great deal of momentum coming up from the Championship.'
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