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Captain completes 70 minutes in training-ground win

2020-10-27T15:52:34.340Z

Mee Steps Up Comeback

Captain completes 70 minutes in training-ground win

2020-10-27T15:52:34.340Z

Skipper closing in on return following training-ground game time

Ben Mee successfully completed 70 minutes in a training-ground game as he continues his comeback from injury.

The Clarets’ skipper returned to full training last week after recovering from a thigh injury.

And he played his first game since a match-winning performance in the Clarets’ Premier League victory at Crystal Palace at the end of June in a 2-0 win over a Derby County U23 side at the Barnfield Training Centre.

Mace Goodridge and substitute Max Thompson got the goals in the second half as the Clarets made the most of a productive run-out.

Mee partnered Bobby Thomas in the centre of the Clarets’ defence to get some valuable game-time and build up his fitness.

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And he will now be pencilled in for further match practice ahead of a future first-team return.

Will Norris kept a clean sheet behind a Burnley back four of Mee, Thomas and full-backs Anthony Glennon and Marcel Elva-Fountaine.

And there was an impressive 90-minute outing in midfield from Josh Benson after his appearance on the Clarets’ bench against Tottenham on Monday night.

Alongside him Goodridge went close before half-time, along with two efforts from Lewis Richardson, before the midfielder fired the Clarets ahead from 20 yards with nearly an hour gone.

Thompson, who had replaced Rob Harker at half-time, then added Burnley’s second a couple of minutes before the end when he clipped the ball home at the near post following good work from Richardson.

Burnley: Norris; Elva-Fountaine, Thomas, Mee (Trialist 70), Glennon; Trialist (Trialist 55), Benson, Goodridge, Tucker; Richardson, Harker (Thompson HT).