Burnley moved out of the relegation places after securing a comfortable victory over Joe Royle's lacklustre Ipswich. It was their first league win in eight matches, and only their second of the season.

Ade Akinbiyi had two good chances to put Burnley ahead in the first 15 minutes. First, his deflected shot almost crept in at the near post, requiring Lewis Price to scramble across goal to save. Then, having been sent clear by Keith Lowe, he failed to score from a narrow angle.

For Ipswich, Sam Parkin had a reasonable opportunity but, after taking Dean Bowditch's clever pass and shimmying past two defenders, the former Swindon striker hit the side netting.

A more straightforward chance fell to Richard Naylor when he was gifted a free header at Jim Magilton's right-wing corner, but his attempt flew wide.

It was in keeping with the untidy nature of the game that Burnley took a fortunate lead in the 32nd minute, James O'Connor's speculative drive taking a deflection off Jason de Vos and looping over the stranded Price.

Burnley almost doubled the lead early in the second half when Akinbiyi skipped past James McEbeley but saw his low shot turned round the post by Price.

Moments later, he burst through again, only to fire into the side netting.

The second goal arrived in the 72nd minute. James O'Connor touched a free kick into the path of his unrelated namesake Gareth, who drilled home hard and low from some 30 yards.

All hope of an Ipswich recovery disappeared in the 86th minute when Chris McCann, the Republic of Ireland under-19 striker, headed his first goal for the club from Gareth O'Connor's left-wing corner.

Ron Gubba