SEAN Dyche said Burnley have to ‘find a way of winning’ after they missed a golden opportunity to secure their first three points of the season against West Ham.

The Clarets dominated the opening 45 minutes against the Hammers, with George Boyd hitting the underside of the crossbar and Danny Ings and Lukas Jutkiewicz both missing good chances.

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Having failed to get the goal that their play merited before the break, Burnley found themselves 2-0 down within ten minutes of the restart, and despite Boyd’s first goal for the club, it finished 3-1 to Sam Allardyce’s side.

It is now eight Premier League games without a win for the Clarets, who have taken just four points from those games, and although their performance, especially in the first half, was encouraging, Dyche knows that the win has to come sooner rather than later.

“We have to find a way of winning, whatever way that should be,” he said.

“My job is to find the positives but not be naive and accept the things we have to try and change.

“We know the things we have to do better, but we have to believe in what we are trying to do.

“We don’t want that to be a story ‘good old Burnley, played well but didn’t win’.

“We have to change that, and it sounds really easy but it’s not, because you’re playing against some really good players and sides.”

After dominating the first half Burnley conceded headed goals to Diafra Sakho and Enner Valencia shortly after the break.

Allardyce admitted he had told his players that the performance hadn’t been good enough at half-time, and they clearly came out revitalised for the second period.

That left Dyche bemoaning a ‘soft 15 minutes’ which he felt had cost his side the game.

“You know teams at any level will try and change the way they are operating at half-time if they’re not happy, and I presume their manager felt we had a good first half so therefore he’s going to have to respond to that, change shape slightly, but more the style of how they were playing,” he said.

“We didn’t deal with that as well, and you can’t afford to have a soft 15 minutes or so in the Premier League – you can’t at any level, but particularly the Premier League.”

Sakho, who was scoring in his sixth successive game for the Hammers, and Valencia arrived at Upton Park in the summer for a combined cost of £16.5million, but Dyche knows he has players at Turf Moor who are capable of scoring goals as well.

“A couple of people have asked me about the finance involved with their two strikers who scored, but that’s irrelevant, it's not about that,” he said.

“We are what we are, we work with what we have available and work really hard.

“But we have to make sure when we are dominant, we take our chance.”

Boyd’s goal was Burnley’s first at home in just over 400 minutes of play, since Scott Arfield’s strike against Chelsea on the opening weekend of the season.

“I was pleased with the mentality,” said Dyche, “keeping going right to the end, we hit the bar again and had a couple of close things, so the mentality is right, we just need to continue the challenge, to find that moment of truth in front of goal to score more regularly.

"It's a tough one, there are good signs on many levels, but we're not naive, you've got to win games - it's the job we're all in.”

Man of the match Boyd earned praise from Dyche for his performance, and he was also happy with the return from injury of Ings and the improved crossing from Kieran Trippier, who shook off an ankle injury sustained at Leicester a fortnight ago to play.

"I've been happy with him (Boyd),” added Dyche, “he's a good addition to the squad. Tripps was good, he came back into what we think he can, particularly with his delivery.

"Ingsy looked nice and sharp - I'm disappointed for him, he did very well and should have nicked a goal and nearly did. I took him off as a precaution with it being his first game back.”