jose mourinho might have called it poetic justice as ashley barnes was sent off on the stroke of half time to deliver a major blow to burnley's prospects of staying in the premier league burnley were left feeling hard done by as referee mike jones denied them a couple of possible penalties and more significantly allowed kevin mirallas to stay on the pitch for a tackle worse than anything barnes did all that would be called karma in mourinho's book the chelsea manager condemned the burnley forward for a 'criminal challenge' on nemanja matic at stamford bridge in february when he escaped unpunished and matic was sent off for retaliation everton forward kevin mirallas (right) opens the scoring on his return to the first team at goodison park  the belgium international gestures after handing everton the lead in their 1 0 defeat of burnley  everton midfielder ross barkley walks away with his head held low after missing a chance to give his side the lead from the spot  burnley forward ashley barnes reacts after being shown the red car by referee mike jones just before half time  everton (4 3 3): howard 6; coleman 75, stones 65, jagielka 65, baines 7; mccarthy 6 (besic 88), barry 6, barkley 6; lennon 8, kone 65 (naismith 80), mirallas 65 (lukaku 61 6) unused subs: robles (gk), garbutt, alcaraz, mcgeady  goal: mirallas 29' booked: mirallas  burnley (4 3 3): heaton 75; trippier 65, duff 6, shackell 65, mee 6; jones 55 (taylor 84), arfield 65, boyd 6 (wallace 84); ings 65, vokes 55 (jutkiewicz 59 6), barnes 5  unused subs: gilks (gk), taylor, ward, kightly  booked: barnes, arfield, shackell  sent off: barnes  referee: mike jones 65  attendance: 39,496  man of the match: aaron lennon (everton) click here to see all the stats, including ross barkley's hat map (above), from sportsmail's brilliant match zone service  on saturday, barnes wasn't so lucky, getting a first yellow card for an attempted sliding tackle on james mccarthy and a second for a foul on seamus coleman 'it was just two silly challenges, not malicious,' said dyche 'but at least the referee got that one right' that was a pithy way of explaining he was less than happy with mr jones for denying burnley penalties for a john stones challenge on barnes and an attempt by mccarthy to bring down scott arfield and he was furious that mirallas stayed on the pitch for a high lunge on george boyd early in the second half 'that was the biggest one it's impossible he stays on the football pitch for a challenge like that,' said dyche 'high, late i've no clue why it wasn't a red card 'i don't want to see players surround referees we don't maybe we should because other teams would have done after the mirallas challenge 10 v 10 is a lot easier than 10 v 11 and we would have fancied our chances' predictably, everton boss roberto martinez had an opposite viewpoint 'i don't think it was a red card at all he stands on his feet in the challenge it was well controlled,' he added before slightly contradicting himself 'it was a typical striker's challenge' everton's on loan winger aaron lennon (right) is brought down in the box by burnley's david jones to win a penalty  england international barkley places the ball on the penalty spot despite leighton baines being available  the young evertonian strikes the ball with conviction as burnley players race forward to clear any danger  barkley strikes the ball low and to the left but burnley keeper tom heaton is equal to it with an excellent save  burnley no 1 heaton blows a sigh of relief after preventing everton from taking the lead  decisions aside, it was clear everton were the better team on the pitch and deserved the victory given to them after 29 minutes when arouna kone dummied seamus coleman's cross and mirallas finished at the second attempt for his 10th goal of the season they had already missed a penalty from ross barkley by that stage burnley's tom heaton was by far the busier of the two goalkeepers and when the visitors had a late chance to equalise, it fell to out of sorts danny ings who headed kieran trippier's cross wide burnley's brave battle against the drop is in danger of running out of steam, perhaps due to dyche's policy of naming unchanged teams leicester's win leaves the clarets bottom of the table having scored only one goal in seven matches they face leicester next weekend and it's a must win,  if they been spurred on by the record breaking test cricket achievements in the caribbean of burnley fan jimmy anderson, it didn't show after ten minutes, david jones pulled down aaron lennon on the edge of the box and they both fell inside baines, whose premier league record from the spot is 15 out of 16, didn't take it barkley did and the effort was saved by heaton with martinez unconvincingly stating afterwards he applauded the youngster's confidence for stepping up at least it didn't deny everton a win as mirallas had done when he grabbed the ball of baines against west brom in january and missed his penalty 'i was very pleased with the overall performance the scoreline shows you a clean sheet and we had 20 attempts to score,' said martinez whose side could still finish a moderate season in the top half of the table burnley would bite your hand off at 17th and dyche still believes in the great escape 'i thought we were decent in the first half and excellent in the second when we were a man down' goalscorer mirallas was booked for this studs up challenge on george boyd but the winger could have easily been shown a red card  everton boss roberto martinez (left) and his burnley counterpart sean dyche watch their teams from the sidelines  mirallas mishit his initial shot before drilling the ball home from outside the box on 28minutes  the belgium international was brought back into the everton side following an injury to leon osman  everton passed the ball around before an interception led to kevin mirallas opening the scoring   click here for all the game's stats from our brilliant match zone service  mirallas wheels away after watching the ball into the net for everton's opener on saturday  the 27 year old raises his hand to acknowledge his goal as everton supporters rise to their feet in the background  everton defender seamus coleman (left) shakes hands with mirallas to celebrate their opening goal  burnley striker danny ings drops to the ground after taking a knock as everton take the lead  tottenham loanee lennon was named man of the match for an energetic performance  barnsley striker barnes (left) is given his marching orders for a second bookable offence  clarets manager dyche does not look barnes' way as the dejected forward trudges past him  burnley defender jason shackell confronts referee mike jones at half time to question the sending off  everton keeper tim howard (left) makes a save from burnley midfielder jones  gareth barry of everton (left) battles for the ball with burnley's lukas jutkiewicz (centre) goal scorer mirallas is substituted for romelu lukaku after being fortunate not to be sent off  burnley's shackell slides in to scythe down barkley of everton towards the end of the game  ings screams in frustration after missing a rare opportunity to bring the visitors level 
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everton defeated 10 men burnley 1 0 in their premier league clash at goodison park  tom heaton saved a penalty from ross barkley after aaron lennon was fouled in the area  kevin mirallas scored the toffees' winner with a drilled shot after initially miskicking the ball  clarets forward ashley barnes was sent off for a second bookable offence on the stroke of half time  mirallas was fortunate to escape being dismissed for a high challenge on george boyd 