Clarets' youth team recorded their third win in four games at the weekend when they beat Bury 3-1 at Gawthorpe.

But manager Terry Pashley admitted: "To be honest, we played better at Carlisle the week before when we lost.

"Obviously it was different opposition and it was a physical game and the lads went about it first class.

"Even though we did not play as well as we can, we got the result."

The goals came from the central midfield pairing of Andy Waine and Joel Pilkington, with Waine netting twice.

The Clarets took the lead but were pulled back to all square before taking control again.

Pashley believes that his players are benefiting this campaign from the harsh lessons they learned last season.

Some of the Clarets' youngsters were younger than members of their opponents' sides, and this made last year difficult.

"A year ago the players found it very difficult because of the physical side of the game," he said.

"It is an Under 19 league and our players were basically 16 and 17-year-olds.

"That meant that they were coming up against older lads who had been at professional clubs for a couple of years.

"Now they have got a year's experience behind them, they are that bit stronger and the ability that I know we have got in the squad is being shown.

"They are now up to the physical test and able to show how well they can play."

Because there is an odd number of teams in the youth league, Burnley have not got a match this weekend.

Pashley had considered organising a friendly fixture to keep things ticking along.

But Pashley said: "The reserves have got a game at West Brom on Monday and a number of my players are going to be involved.

"The likes of Earl Davis, Joel Pilkington and a couple of others will be travelling down as the subs will be from my lads," he said. "We will have them in for training over the weekend, as we always do now, and hopefully those who play for the reserves will do well again.

"Earl and Joel had good games against Wrexham and Matty O'Neill played well in the second half."