Burnley manager Sean Dyche has declared that his side deserved their 2-1 victory over Everton at Turf Moor.

The Clarets boss insisted that there was no luck involved in his team's win against Sam Allardyce's men, their first victory in 12 matches across all competitions.

"It's tough when you're on a run like this. We have deserved better in recent games so we wanted to bring freedom to our performance. We went 1-0 down but it didn't knock us," Dyche told BBC Sport.

"We were on the front foot, particularly from the second half. We are not shy on getting the ball in behind, I'm an advocate of mixed football. How many ways can you affect the defence? We get dumbed down at times but the pass from Matt Lowton is top class, as good as I've seen in a long time.

"We hadn't turned a 1-0 deficit down before, people remind you of those stats so this is good for the team. We deserved it today, there was no luck involved.

"Now that we have reached 40 points with nine games to go it's a marker of how far we have come in a short space of time."

Burnley's victory, which came as a result of Ashley Barnes and Chris Wood goals cancelling out Cenk Tosun's opener, leaves the Clarets in seventh place in the table.