SEAN Dyche said he was ‘really pleased’ with Burnley’s performance in their 0-0 draw with Queens Park Rangers.

The Clarets had to settle for a point in a dour encounter at Loftus Road, but with the R’s playing their first game under new boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Dyche was happy with his side’s display.

“From my point of view, I thought it was a tough game,” said the Burnley boss.

“Forget about how it panned out, you've got a new manager, a team which usually get a reaction from a new manager, a team that have only lost once at home anyway, so the feel is in their favour immediately.

"So for us to come and deal with that and get on with our own game and finish so strong, I'm really pleased.”

Dyche said he had partly prepared his team by looking at the way Hasselbaink had set up his Burton Albion side that sat top of League One when he left them last week.

"We looked at what Jimmy had done at Burton, that doesn't mean it's going to be the same, but there are certain traits and things most managers take with them,” he said.

"We thought they'd try and press, which they did, particularly early on, we thought they probably wouldn't be able to keep that going for 95 minutes, and go from back to front quite quickly, which they did, so we were prepared for that.

"We absorbed it well, any efforts they had were from distance, and then we felt we'd get stronger, which we did.

"So, from our point of view, we're pleased how it ended up going, apart from we didn't find that winner.”

Dyche also felt his side had the better of the chances at Loftus Road, with Andre Gray denied when Rob Green smothered the ball in front of him, while he could also have had a penalty for a shirt pull.

"It's hard on the road, it's not an easy task, but we had the better quality of chances,” said Dych.

"Andre had his shirt pulled a few times - it would have been favourable if we'd got them, but you never know, Vokesey had two headers, I thought generally the feel of the last 20 minutes was strong from us.”