Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Burnley 4
By Burnley FC
April 25 2021
Wood treble fires brilliant Clarets to biggest Premier League away win and brink of safety
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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. To read the full match report please click on the link below; |
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West Ham next.
Having said that, Wolves just didn't turn up did they, but that's their problem, you can only beat what's in front of you, and we did that emphatically.



