Half time: Clarets 0 Magpies 0

70 mins Erik Pieters carried the ball forward through central midfield and threaded a pass to his right between Jamaal Lascelles and Kelland Watts, picking out the run of Jay Rodriguez into the area.

With Watts appealing in vain for offside, the Clarets striker finished with a low first-time sidefoot from 12 yards out in front of the Jimmy McIlroy Stand. 0-1

Full time: Clarets 1 Magpies 0

Sean Dyche said: 

Fair play to Steve and Newcastle, a lot of the sides know each other now. The analysis on each team is so deep but it’s still one thing that doesn’t normally happen – apart from in tournaments abroad – where teams from the Premier League play each other.

"But Brucey wanted the game, we wanted the game and he was happy to do that. Both sides had mixtures (of players), them slightly more than us due to their deeper squad.

"But I think everyone went about it in the right way. It was a competitive game. I think there was a reality to it, which is important, and it was tight – as Premier League games can be.

"We are juggling the game time. We want to make sure we can get to a point where everyone has had enough football and, equally, everybody is fit and well.

"The mentality has been really good and that’s important going forwards. I asked today about the squad mentality because we made a few changes and I thought it was clear to see.

"Everyone’s on board and everyone is working very hard. Everyone knows what we want to do and how we want to achieve it and the way we play and I think there was a good sign of that today.

"I thought we delivered a good performance. A lot of our play was productive, so we were pleased with that, and we had a really good shape defensively, which is always important to us.”