Chris Wood was the Clarets’ hat-trick hero on a magical afternoon at Molineux which saw the Clarets surge up the table on the back of a biggest ever away win in the Premier League.

 Wood struck three times in a magnificent first-half performance to become the first Burnley player – and only the second in the Premier League era – to score a top-flight hat-trick since Andre Gray against Sunderland in December, 2016.

 Wood took his tally to six goals in as many games and 10 for the season for a fourth year in a row since his arrival from Leeds United with a typically predatory performance.

 And his treble – at the cutting edge of a magnificent team effort – and Ashley Westwood’s fantastic late strike improved the Clarets’ goal difference sufficiently to lift them up to 14th-place in the table and nine points clear of the relegation places with five games to go.

 It was the perfect response to a losing three-game which had left a lingering threat of relegation.

 And while the mathematics suggest safety isn’t yet assured, the show of intent from Sean Dyche’s men in securing Burnley’s first top-flight win at Wolves since 1973 and a first double at this level for over 60 years surely underlined the collective determination to make any threat to the Clarets’ top-tier status just a nominal one.

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