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Losing to the team 13th in English football’s third tier represents a new low in Burnley<\/a>‘s season just as renewed optimism was starting to creep in.<\/p>\n Burnley<\/a>‘s remarkable 3-2 come-from-behind win at Crystal Palace<\/a> on Wednesday was their first victory in 16 Premier League games. The gloom started to lift slightly.<\/p>\n Parker’s side showed real fight and spirit at Selhurst Park, which made his decision to make nine changes to his team for the visit of Mansfield all the more baffling.<\/p>\n “When you don’t go through to the next round there will always be questions asked about that [team selection] but I don’t think that was the main factor today,” Parker told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n “We lacked a little something in those final moments. That was where we have fallen way short today.”<\/p>\n Burnley<\/a> are not the first, nor will they be the last, Premier League side to ring the changes for a cup game against lower opposition.<\/p>\n But having been dumped out of the League Cup by Cardiff City back in September, the FA Cup was the supporters’ only chance to distract themselves from looming relegation.<\/p>\n “It is embarrassing, the changes he made. Play your strongest team. He made nine changes, and the second half was embarrassing,” former Burnley<\/a> defender David Unsworth said on BBC Radio East Lancashire.<\/p>\n