BURNLEY are waiting on scans of Ashley Barnes’ hamstring strain with boss Sean Dyche revealing a return to action is ‘not imminent’ for the striker.

Barnes limped out of the Clarets 3-1 victory at Bradford on Saturday and has since undergone scans to determine the extent of the problem.

A timescale has not yet been placed on the 26-year-old’s return, but Lukas Jutkiewicz, who replaced Barnes at Valley Parade and then also came off with a hamstring niggle, is closer to action.

Both players missed Burnley’s 2-1 win at Bolton tonight.

“Barnesy we’re just waiting to see how long but he’s not imminent, we’re not sure how long, it’s a hamstring strain but a slightly different one and a smaller muscle in the hamstring, so we’ve had that scanned,” said Dyche.

“It’s nothing untoward but it could be a bit of time yet.

“Juke is very close, that was more of a sensible call on that one.

“We’ll have to see what the physios say on Barnesy, it’s still in the early stages after settling down from the weekend.”

David Jones and Fredrik Ulvestad also missed out at the Macron Stadium with the midfield duo reporting ill earlier today.

“Jonah and Freddie have had a bit of a bug so they got off today,” said Dyche. “We don’t want that spreading through the camp so we got them off as quick as we could.

“They would have both figured actually but we had to change that.”

Despite the injury problems Burnley made it three wins from four in pre-season through Andre Gray’s first half penalty and Josh Ginnelly’s late winner, and Dyche was pleased with the display from his side.

“I was pleased with the performance in general, results are for mentality but performances are the key thing,” he said.

“We’re building that join between purely fitness and now fitness and performance and I thought there were lots of good signs around the whole group tonight.

“There were lots of changes, everyone adapted well, they looked like they knew how the team works and how the team operates, which is important because then you get clear mentalities and clear minds which I’m pleased with.”