SEAN Dyche was pleased with Chris Wood’s impact off the bench in Burnley’s goalless draw at Newcastle.

On a day where the Clarets failed to fire in the final third, the 10-goal top scorer returned from injury in the second half at St James’ Park.

Wood replaced Matej Vydra 10 minutes into the second half and while he gave the visitors a different impetus, Dyche’s men managed just one shot on target in a game that will not live long in the memory.

Now the Clarets boss will have a decision to make ahead of Tottenham’s visit to Turf Moor on Saturday with Wood, Vydra and Jay Rodriguez all vying for a start.

"He is a very good player for us,” Dyche said of Wood. 

“Matej has done really well, scored two very important goals and not just scored goals but delivered performances. He was not a million miles off it today.

"The times when we got to a chance to expose the centre halves we didn't quite use it when we could have.

“They are the details that are important in the game, the touch, lay-off, turning and affecting centre halves. We didn't find that.

"When Woody came on he did well. He added to the performance and you want people to come off the bench and do well and I thought he did that.”

Having impressed against Southampton and Bournemouth, Rodriguez and Vydra could not give the Clarets an outlet and too many passes went astray, the front two no more guilty than the rest.

“In the first half when I felt we couldn't find the moments I think Jay let one go by him and went for the one-two and it just slipped under Matej's foot and he turns and drives and one bobbled away from him,” said Dyche.

"It was that kind of performance really. We couldn't find the clarity but on that side of things I thought we had trained really well this week.

“The players were as bright as I have seen them in recent weeks but we just didn't find it when he had the ball.

"Without the ball I thought we were strong."