Norwich secured a fifth successive win to tighten their grip at the top of the Championship with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Cardiff at Carrow Road.
Beautifully taken goals in either half from Emi Buendia and Todd Cantwell took Daniel Farke's in-form side six points clear of second placed Bournemouth, ahead of the Cherries' clash with Luton later in the day.
It was a thoroughly deserved victory for the hosts, whose win broke a sequence of hard-fought 2-1 successes and would have been even more emphatic had they taken more of the plentiful chances that came their way during a one-sided clash.