IF THE first two pre-season outings were about getting some fitness back into the legs, then Burnley turned on the style for the first time on Saturday as they produced some moments of class to stroll past Bradford City.

In the games against Stade Nyonnais and Morecambe, Sean Dyche had made 10 outfield changes at the break - but for the first time this pre-season some of his key men featured for more than 70 minutes at Valley Parade and they showed glimpses that suggested their Premier League class was returning.

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It was another good day for last season’s top scorer Andre Gray, with his two strikes taking his pre-season tally to four in just 156 minutes of football.

His first came on the back of a delightful team move, while his second was a smart finish from a wonderful Dean Marney pass.

Burnley’s three-goal salvo in just five first-half minutes effectively ended the match as a contest, and although the Bantams created chances going forward, their wayward finishing meant the Clarets’ lead was never truly threatened.

Tom Heaton and Stephen Ward made their first appearances of pre-season after returning to training this week following Euro 2016, while Nick Pope made his debut in the second half after completing his £1.1 million switch from Charlton earlier this week.

But it wasn’t all good news in Yorkshire, with Ashley Barnes coming off injured just before the break after he pulled up when playing a pass, while his replacement Lukas Jutkiewicz lasted just two minutes before he also felt his hamstring.

The deadlock was broken after a quarter of an hour and it was a well-worked goal from the Clarets, as David Jones’ pass in central midfield found George Boyd in space.

He linked up with the advancing Ward, who played Boyd back in on the overlap and the former Hull City winger’s clipped cross was headed home by Gray from inside the six-yard box.

Two minutes later Gray found the back of the net again. This time Marney’s ball over the top saw Gray beat the offside trap and from 18 yards he lofted the bouncing ball over Colin Doyle’s head and under the crossbar.

The Clarets were rampant now and after Scott Arfield won a corner Jones’ deep, in-swinging delivery was headed back across goal and into the top corner by Mee for the third.

Burnley should have had a penalty just before the half hour, with Gray controlling another superb Marney pass and cutting inside Nathan Clarke, who appeared to trip him, but referee Geoff Eltringham waved the appeals away.

A minute later Billy Clarke rattled the post for the home side from close range from a Bradford corner, before Filipe Morais broke through the middle, tracked by Marney and Ward, with the left back managing to poke the ball behind just as Morais was about to pull the trigger.

Morais did get a goal back just before the break though. Mark Marshall’s initial shot had fallen to Clarke, who saw his effort saved by Heaton, but Morais turned the rebound across goal and into the far corner. The second half was interrupted for changes on several occasions and the game lost it’s rhythm after the break.

But with Michael Keane and Ben Mee getting 72 minutes next to each other, Ward coming through for more than an hour having only returned to training this week, and Jones and Arfield getting close to 80 minutes, there were more positives for Dyche.

Pope’s only involvement saw him collect a low cross from McMahon on the bounce at his near post, while at the other end Jones twice fired over the bar from distance.

Burnley eventually added a fourth when Michael Kightly tapped home from close range after the City defence had made a mess of youngster Dan Agyei’s low cut-back.

It was another youngster, winger Josh Ginnelly, who had the chance to make it five in the dying seconds, but after racing through on goal he was denied by Doyle.