The Clarets dusted off the cobwebs to stay in the hunt for a play-off place as Joel Mumbongo again de-railed Crewe.
Playing their first game in more than a month, Burnley enhanced their hopes of a top-two finish in the Professional Development League’s northern section.
With a raft of players out on loan, that may no longer be such an obvious goal.
Only three players who started the reverse fixture last November were on starting duty again at Gresty Road.
But Mumbongo was one of them and he repeated the two goals he scored in the 4-2 home win over the Railwaymen to keep Andy Farrell’s men in the hunt as they briefly went back to second in the table.