Cardiff arrived in form, with ten points from their last five games, and finished with 61 per cent of the ball, 13 shots, nine shots on target and one off the woodwork. They still went home beaten 3-0, and still without an away league win this season.

Fer López, the only change from the Watford win, opened it on ten minutes. Hugo Bueno drove from deep in his own half and floated a pass into the area, and López stooped to head home as Calum Scanlon failed to track his run. It was the 22-year-old's sixth Championship goal of the season.

Five minutes later it was two. López spread it wide to Rafiki Saïd, who floated another ball behind a flat Cardiff back line, and the unmarked Adam Armstrong headed in his second goal in as many games. It should have been three when Nathan Trott passed straight to Saïd inside the area, but Saïd shot back into the goalkeeper's arms.

Brian Barry-Murphy's side did have their moments. Chris Willock had already drawn a save from Sá, and Jack Moylan forced another just before the game was stopped. Players pointed to the South Bank behind Sá's goal and medics were called into the home end. Play was held up for several minutes before it resumed. Cardiff said on social media that their thoughts were with those affected.

Wolves also lost Jordan James, with what looked like a hamstring problem, in the 36th minute, and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde came on. Before the break Sá kept out Calum Scanlon and Ollie Tanner, and Joel Colwill's header was blocked deep into the six added minutes.

Colwill tested Sá again straight after the restart and once more on 52 minutes. Then, on 58, Kieran Trippier swung in a corner and Ladislav Krejčí, far too free, headed in from close range for his second Wolves goal. Three goals, three headers.

Barry-Murphy sent on Rubin Colwill, Cian Ashford and Ronan Kpakio. Cardiff kept coming, but Sá saved from Alex Robertson and Ashford, then turned Yousef Salech's header onto the post, and Joel Colwill missed the rebound from a yard out. Top scorer Jack Moylan did put the ball in from close range, only to be flagged offside. Wolves, with Rodrigo Gomes back from injury off the bench, had chances on the break, and Gomes and Bellegarde both went close.

Cesar Peixoto had asked his players to be "main characters" this week. He liked what he saw.

Barry-Murphy was blunt about how the goals went in.

Hugo Bueno, who made the first, wasn't getting carried away.

Wolves committed 20 fouls to Cardiff's eight and collected four bookings. It wasn't always pretty, but it is now four games without defeat, their longest unbeaten run of the season, and three headers and a goalkeeper in this form will win a lot of Championship games.

Burnley had 18 shots to Portsmouth's five and 1.73 expected goals to 0.25. They hit the target four times. Nicolas Schmid saved all four, and John Mousinho's side, who had warned all week that the Clarets would be "incredibly dangerous" under a new head coach, went home with a point.

Burnley set about Pompey from the start. Marcus Edwards had a shot blocked inside two minutes and Largie Ramazani another five minutes later. Andréas Hountondji headed over from Josh Laurent's cross on 19 minutes.

The pressure built just before the half-hour. Kyle Walker drew a save from Schmid in the top of the net, and from the corner Edwards lifted a close-range shot over. Five minutes later Jamie Vardy nodded down for Hountondji in the centre of the box, and again Schmid was equal to it.

Hountondji had another header blocked from Lucas Pires's cross, and Ramazani tested Schmid from distance before the break. Portsmouth's only efforts of note were from outside the box; Adrian Segecic's was blocked on ten minutes, and Abu Kamara and Ryan Kavuma-McQueen were both caught offside.

Mousinho changed things at half-time, sending on Ebou Adams for Segecic, and replaced Kavuma-McQueen with Tyrese Shade five minutes after the restart. Vardy had a shot blocked before he was replaced by Jaydon Banel on 62 minutes, and Kamara fired high and wide at the other end.

Celestini sent on Josh Cullen and Aaron Ramsey, and Burnley kept probing. Ramazani blazed over from the centre of the box on 70 minutes, and Banel did the same from Ramazani's cross six minutes later.

Josh Murphy, back after missing ten games, came on for Pompey and shot high and wide from a corner. Terry Devlin and Thomas Waddingham were also sent on in the final ten minutes. Schmid had one more save to make, keeping out Ramazani's drive from outside the box on 90 minutes, and Murphy dragged a shot wide in stoppage time.

Burnley will take heart from the way they played, and a win would have lifted them out of the relegation zone. But they have now gone more than a year without winning a league game at Turf Moor, and good performances alone will not get them out of the bottom three. Portsmouth lacked a cutting edge, but they have now gone five league games unbeaten.

It was Celestini's birthday, too.

Mousinho was honest about the first half and happy with the point.