SEAN Dyche looked to the positives after Burnley extended their unbeaten Premier League run to six games with a 0-0 draw at Newcastle.

The Clarets were well short of their best but kept an 11th clean sheet of the campaign at St James’ Park.

Newcastle had the better of the chances with the visitors mustering just one shot on target, Jeff Hendrick testing Martin Dubravka in the first half.

“I don't think we got to grips with the game offensively, particularly first half, we couldn't find the moments you need to win games, but defensively we were solid,” said Dyche.

"You get a clean sheet - I think that's 11 for the season now - and it always gives you something to build on.

"So, a bit of frustration because we felt we could come here and win, but I'm not naive to think it's easy against a side that, although there have been a few question marks, they have only lost here three times this season, so they've obviously a good outfit when they're at home, so it's hard to win these games.

"But overall, another clean sheet, another point on the table and 11 clean sheets in total, which think is a really strong marker for a side like ourselves.”

Burnley have now kept the opposition out in four of the last five games and defensive solidity proved particularly key on a day where the Clarets never got going in the final third.

Chris Wood had a couple of openings after coming on for Matej Vydra on his return from injury but could not test Dubravka.

Dyche looked at the bigger picture though with his side very much still in the hunt for European football.

"Yeah, it's one of those funny things, we get asked about it a lot, but we don't plan on defending our way out of things,” he said.

“Sometimes teams are very good, and, particularly away from home, you often have to surrender some of the areas of the pitch to make sure you don't give anything away, and it makes that balance between attacking and defending more precarious, but generally we've found that very well this season, and today the defensive side was fine - better than fine, particularly with a lot of set pieces coming in, we dealt with that very well.

"They had a couple of breakaway moments, and Charlie Taylor was excellent, a couple one v ones, so that side of things was very good.

"But with the ball we were nowhere near where we have been lately.

"It's a healthy frustration at the moment, 38 points in the Premier League with 10 to go, that's a pretty strong sign of the season we're having.

"But you do get more and more greedy. You want more from your players and they should want more as well, and I think they do.”