MATT Lowton hailed the international Clarets as several of his teammates shrugged off disappointment with their country to shine for their club on Saturday.

Lowton was one of just five senior outfield players left to train during the international fortnight, but Burnley made light of the difficulty in preparing for the weekend by beating Swansea City 2-0 to record a third successive Premier League win.

While Chris Wood was absent after only arriving back on Friday, Burnley's Irish contingent of Stephen Ward, Jeff Hendrick and Robbie Brady all started as they sought to put their Danish disappointment behind them.

"There has only been a few of us left training but we've still been working hard as the manager likes us to do," Lowton said of the training.

"With the lads that went away, with the Irish boys and Woodsy, unfortunately they didn't get the results that they wanted but it shows the mentality of those lads as well to get a knock in the week and then come out and perform. It's just a great set of lads, everyone is in it together, and that showed again on Saturday."

The win over the Swans followed victories over Newcastle and Southampton and former Aston Villa right-back Lowton added: "We're on a good run at the minute, we've won the last three with three clean sheets. We're in high spirits at the minute but we know as well as anyone that it can turn so it's up to us to keep it going.

"We probably didn't dominate the ball but we didn't give up any clear cut opportunities. I can't remember conceding a shot on target until late on with the Bony header. I think we controlled the key areas of the pitch."

Saturday's victory maintained Burnley's strong grasp of seventh place and they are keeping pace with Liverpool and Arsenal and are just a point behind Tottenham in fourth.

After just 12 games the Clarets are already more than halfway to the total of 40 points they accumulated last season.

This year's total of 22 has them close to average two point a game and Lowton believes that is a significant sign of progress as he hailed the fringe players and new recruits that are keeping the Turf Moor momentum going.

"It shows how far we've come," he said. "The lads we brought in in the summer have added to the group again and fitted in fantastically.

"Barnesy was a different class, he's not played much in the last few weeks but with the way the team is he doesn't get down and he keeps working hard. That shows on matchday."