Victory for Cardiff against Burnley would almost certainly lift Neil Warnock's men out of the bottom three, for a week at the very least anyway.
And given that every side from Everton below have failed to win more than one of their opening six games, it's already shaping up to be tight at the bottom.
So the way things are going, keeping in touch is seemingly all that matters because it's increasingly looking like around half of the sides in the Premier League could realistically have relegation concerns come the business end of the season.
So all is far from lost for Cardiff. A positive run here and there could be all it takes.
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