EMMANUEL Petit compared Turf Moor to Villa Park -- and Burnley must have felt they weren't too far off the Premiership on their performance as well.

Petit made his Chelsea debut but didn't have the easiest of games with the Clarets frontmen giving him a testing time.

The French World Cup winner, a £5.5m signing from Barcelona, was still pleased with his Turf Moor bow.

"It reminds me of Villa Park with the colours. It was a lovely place to play," he said.

But while Petit stole the headlines with his first Chelsea run-out, it was another 'Little' who stole the show.

Burnley right winger Glen Little showed that he can terrorise Premiership defenders just as well as he did with the First Division ones last season.

The crowd certainly enjoyed the way he tricked his way past Jon Harley and £7.8m former Ajax midfielder Jesper Gronkjaer on a number of occasions with 'Super Glen' ringing out around Turf Moor.

He looked up for it from the off against the multi-million pound side where the team sheet -- even with the likes of Marcel Desailly and Graeme Le Saux missing -- still contained big names including Petit, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Eidur Gudjohnsen

There were back flicks, jinking runs, teasing crosses and an early move which almost set up Gareth Taylor, who looks like he will get the nod -- with Burnley's £1m record buy Ian Moore -- to start up front against Sheffield Wednesday in the opening league encounter on Sunday.

Taylor, though, headed wide at the far post but the build up from Burnley -- which included Lee Briscoe, Paul Cook and Little patiently working around the area -- was hopefully an omen of things to come for this season.

Right back Dean West backed Little up well -- and he also managed to get the better of Gronjkaer who got no change from the Burnley battler. Chelsea's movement down the left wing was well and truly limited in the first half.

The fans thought Burnley had the lead with just ten minutes on the clock when Little once more played in a perfect cross which hit the shoulder of Mario Melchiot, with Ian Moore pressing, and looped into the goal.

Melchiot, a Dutch international who looked uncomfortable against the Burnley frontment, got let off when the referee ruled that Moore's challenge was illegal.

But four minutes later it was magical Little again who once more provided the ammunition when his ball into the area was cleared by new £6.2m centre back William Gallas, signed from Marseille straight to Ian Moore.

Even though 'Mooro' still had a lot to do, he fired in a low shot which hit the back of the net -- and the former Stockport player must have been relieved to break his pre season duck.

Burnley were enjoying themselves until Graham Branch, while clearing the ball for a corner, collapsed in the area holding his left ankle and was stretchered off.

It gave trialist Alan Moore the chance to get on and he made one or two runs during his last chance to try and earn a contract at Turf Moor.

Greek Under 21 international Dimitri Papadopoulos was also introduced on 25 minutes for an ill Ian Moore.

The striker raced after everything and the Clarets seemed in charge until a mistake gifted Chelsea the equaliser. A hopeful ball was pumped to the edge of the area and Steve Davis decided to head the ball back to Nik Michopoulos.

As he waited for the ball to fall, Mario Stanic nipped in to slam the ball past Nik the Greek.

Michopoulos stood no chance and was left exposed again when Slavisa Jokanovic split the Burnley defence to leave Gudjohnsen with only the goalie to beat. It looked a certain goal but Michopoulos spread his body to touch the ball to safety.

With only two minutes of the second half gone, Hasselbaink was forced to go off or be sent off after lashing out at Davis. The referee told the Chelsea bench to substitute him as some of the Blues players struggled to cope with the physical aspect of the game.

On came Gianfranco Zola --which says a lot about the Chelsea bench -- but Ternent then showed his options by changing the entire team to the cheers of the fans on 53 minutes.

Even Alan Moore and Papadopoulos came off despite only playing a short time, as the new-look Burnley entered the stage.

Striker Andy Payton got a warm reception as did French trialist Arthur Gnohere, the central defender who entertained the crowd in the 1-0 loss to Everton.

He didn't have too much to do but still looked assured on the ball and fitted in well to the Burnley backline. John Mullin looked very sharp and Lennie Johnrose had a couple of goods runs from midfield.

But it went Chelsea's way in the 65th minute when Kevin Ball was judged to have pulled back skipper Frank Lampard in the penalty area.

Lampard himself, signed from West Ham for £11m, took the spot kick and although Cennamo guessed the right way there was too much power on the ball.

Burnley had a couple of chances to get back into it especially through Gordon Armstrong who took two 20-yard free kicks which went close while in the home goal Luigi Cennamo had to save with his legs from Gronkjaer.

Paul Cook came back on for Paul Hughes after just 23 minutes on the pitch, which suggests the former Chelsea player will not be staying at Turf Moor

The Blues finished the stronger side but it was irrelevant: the crowd had been entertained -- and they will hope Little remains the chief entertainer so Burnley can face Chelsea on equal terms the season after next.

BURNLEY1

Moore 16

CHELSEA2

Stanic 36, Lampard 65 BURNLEY

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Michopoulos

West Cox Davis Branch

Little Weller Cook Briscoe

Taylor Moore

Subs: A Moore (for Branch 25); Papadopoulos (for I Moore 35), Cennamo (for Michopoulos 53), McGregor (for West 53), Ball (for Davis 53), Gnohere (for Cox 53), Armstrong (for Briscoe 53), Mullin (for Weller 53), Maylett (for Little 53), Hughes (for Cook 53), Payton (for Papadopoulos 53); Ellis (for Taylor 53), Cook (for Hughes 76)