CHRIS Wood is eager to show Leicester what they’re missing this weekend and continue the fine start he’s made to his Clarets career.

Burnley’s record signing returned to the starting line-up at Bournemouth on Wednesday night and he was back with a bang, scoring his fourth Premier League goal in 10 appearances this season.

Wood is certainly proving his worth at this level since arriving at Turf Moor in a £15million deal from Leeds United in August.

Tomorrow he returns to a club where he spent two-and-a-half years, but while he was a regular for the Foxes in the Championship, he found chances in the Premier League limited at the King Power Stadium, eventually dropping back down a level to join Leeds.

The 25-year-old insists he never doubted his own ability to thrive at the highest level as he prepares to return to the East Midlands as one of the Premier League’s form strikers, and grateful for the lesson he learnt at the club.

“Two-and-a-half years is a big chunk of my career,” Wood said.

“It shaped me in good or bad ways because it didn’t always go my own way. I had to work hard and fight to get my way off the bench. It was tough but it turned me into the player that I am today.

“I always believed that I could (play in the Premier League) but I never got the chance. That’s just how it goes in football - sometimes you don’t get those chances.

“I had a great time there, I really enjoyed it and it’ll be nice to go back there for the first time. It’s going to be a tough one but it’s going to be a good one.

“They went on to do some great things. It’s nice to see. But it’s one that we’ll be going there to take all three points.”

Wood’s opener on the south coast helped fire the Clarets to a fourth away win of the season and send them sixth in the table.

The New Zealand striker is delighted with Burnley’s start to the campaign, but said the dressing room are refusing to stray from the ‘one game at a time’ mantra that has served them so well.

“We’re trying to take the club forward and build on what we’ve got,” he said.

“We’ve got a great squad and great staff here so we’ll continue building to take this club forward.

“It’s nice to be up there. We’d rather be up there than down at the bottom. We’ve worked extremely hard to get where we are and we’ll have to continue working extremely hard to stay where we are.

“It’s literally about the next game, that’s just how we work and that’s what has served us extremely well this season. From what I hear from the boys it was like that last season as well, they just focus on the next game, making sure we’re ready, recovered, preparing well, making sure we’re all set.”