BEN Mee is relishing the return of Danny Ings and a number of Burnley’s other injured players after the international break.

Ings, the Clarets’ top scorer with 26 goals last season, has missed the last three matches with a hamstring problem as the club’s injury list has mounted.

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Dean Marney, David Jones and Nathaniel Chalobah also missed last weekend’s 2-2 draw at Leicester City but all four players may be ready to return for Saturday’s home match against West Ham United.

Defender Mee has been full of praise for the players who have come into the side and who helped to secure a crucial point at Leicester, but he nevertheless welcomes the increased competition that the returning players will provide.

“We've got a few players to come back from injury and hopefully the break now will help them recover,” said the left back.

“Bringing Ingsy back would be brilliant obviously and so would getting Deano and Jonah back as well.

“Ingsy is an important player for us, but the lads up there have done really well. They’ve worked their socks off.

“The lads that have come in have done a great job.”

Without Marney and Jones, Burnley fielded a new central midfield partnership of Stephen Ward and Scott Arfield at Leicester.

While Ward is now on international duty and could line up in the Republic of Ireland’s European Championship qualifier at home to Gibraltar today, Arfield was again surprisingly overlooked for the Scotland squad that host Georgia at 5pm.

The former Huddersfield midfielder is still awaiting his first Scotland call-up, despite playing a key part in Burnley’s promotion last season and impressing in the Premier League in the early stages of the new campaign.

“He’s started like a house on fire this season and how he’s not in that squad I don’t know,” Mee said.

“I think he’s quite puzzled about it as well. Hopefully he’ll get in the next one. We’ve said in the dressing room that it’s an odd one that he can’t break his way in to it.

“It’s something they may need to look at but I definitely think he should be in there, 100 per cent.

“He’s got a lot of confidence and he’s flying.”

Mee believes the whole Clarets squad are growing in confidence as they prepare for back to back home games against West Ham and Everton.

He added: “We’re defending well, we just need that belief that we’re going to score plenty of goals.

“We’re getting there.”