BURNLEY are denied an impressive away win by Liam Lawrence's late penalty.
Jon Harley is adjudged to have pushed Richard Cresswell when clean through on goal, and despite going the wrong way, Gabor Kiraly is beaten from the spot.
The goal is harsh on the Clarets, who more than withstood constant pressure from their hosts
, who rarely created a clear goalscoring opportunity.
Burnley had the lead inside three minutes, when a flowing move down the right ends with Kyle Lafferty shooting low and hard under Carlo Nash.
The goal looked certain to have given Burnley all three points, but it wasn't to be as Owen Coyle's side stay within touching distance of the top six.
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3 mins: GOAL!! Burnley's first real attack of note sees Ade Akinbiyi's neat flick set up James O'Connor, who plays the ball across for Kyle Lafferty to shoot low and hard under Carlo Nash. Stoke 0-1 Burnley.
8 mins: Robbie Blake's left wing corner is met by Kyle Lafferty on the back post, who plays the ball low and hard across the face of goal for Ade Akinbiyi, but two yards out, he miscues his shot and the ball ends up in the grateful arms of Carlo Nash.
16 mins: Ricardo Fuller bursts through the Burnley defence on the right hand side of the area, but his shot in anger goes well wide of Gabor Kiraly's goal.
22 mins: Stanislav Varga fouls Ricardo Fuller, and Liam Lawrence's free kick is headed towards goal by Leon Cort, which is well taken under his crossbar by Gabor Kiraly.
36 mins: Jon Harley's lungbursting run eventually sees him hacked down by Salif Diao, but Robbie Blake sends the resulting free kick high and wide.
40 mins: Wade Elliott's cross for Ade Akinbiyi is headed over by Leon Cort, but when Robbie Blake's corner finds Mark Randall, he sends a curling effort over from outside the area.
44 mins: Robbie Blake cuts in from the right before taking on the Stoke defence, but his final effort is poor and rolls through comfortably for Carlo Nash.
Half-Time: Stoke 0-1 Burnley.
51 mins: Ricardo Fuller's neat flick sees him run clear of Jon Harley, but his snap shot is straight into the arms of Gabor Kiraly.
60 mins: Clarke Carlisle mis-times a back header leaving Ricardo Fuller to run clean through on goal, but he flicks the ball wide of Gabor Kiraly and wide of the post.
67 mins: Mamady Sidibe's clever free kick is thundered towards goal, but is palmed away by Gabor Kiraly and hacked to safety.
89 mins: John Spicer's run down the left ends with the substitute flicking a lovely ball inside for Andrew Cole, but his shot hits the legs of Carlo Nash and goes behind for a corner, which comes to nothing.
90 mins: GOAL!! Jon Parkin burst through on goal only to be pushed to the floor by Jon Harley, and Liam Lawrence squeezes his penalty between Gabor Kiraly and the post. Stoke 1-1 Burnley.
Full-Time: Stoke 1-1 Burnley.
Stoke: Nash, Griffin, Riggott, Cort, Pugh, Lawrence, Diao (Parkin 85), Delap, Cresswell, Sidibe (Gallagher 70), Fuller.
Subs: Simonsen (GK), Shawcross, Wilkinson.
Burnley: Kiraly, Alexander, Carlisle, Varga, Harley, Elliott, J. O'Connor, Randall (Mahon 63), Lafferty (Spicer 79), Blake, Akinbiyi (Cole 82).
Subs: Jensen (GK), Unsworth.
Attendace: 18,432
Referee: Howard Webb (South Yorkshire).
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