|
The Welsh side have just one game to play and that's against bottom club Accrington Stanley. So if we assume they are going to win that it will leave Carlisle out of the running and us twelve points behind and with a far better goal difference meaning four wins will do it.
Our win against Port Vale was a third successive win, and it is five in all competitions with the two Lancashire FA Youth Cup ties. We've scored three goals in each of the wins and conceded just one in the cup win at Oldham.
Carlisle kept their, now slim, hopes alive on Saturday with a 3-1 home win against Stockport but Wrexham, who have had the good fortune to only have to play the other top teams once, have lost just one game all season.
Preston are now well clear of the rest of the pack in fourth place and they played on Saturday as well as the Monday game against Wrexham. They beat Wigan on the Saturday.
It proved to be a day for the underdogs with all of the bottom three recording wins. Bottom club Accrington beat Chester whilst Morecambe and Blackpool beat Tranmere and Macclesfield respectively. Elsewhere there were also wins for Oldham and Shrewsbury.
Saturday brings us our first opportunity to start pulling some points back. Neither of the top two play whilst we are in action at Gawthorpe again with a home game against Tranmere. Kick off is at 11:00 a.m.
Latest Results
Saturday 4th April
Accrington 3 Chester 1
Blackpool 3 Macclesfield 1
Burnley 3 Port Vale 0
Bury 0 Shrewsbury 2
Carlisle 3 Stockport 1
Morecambe 2 Tranmere 1
Oldham 3 Walsall 1
Preston 1 Wigan 0
Monday 6th April
Preston 1 v Wrexham 2
This Week's Fixtures
Wednesday 8th April
Morecambe v Blackpool
Saturday 11th April
Burnley v Tranmere
Bury v Rochdale
Macclesfield v Walsall
Morecambe v Accrington
Port Vale v Shrewsbury
Wigan v Blackpool
Burnley Goalscorers (league and cup)
28: Wes Fletcher
10: Liam Newman
9: Dominic Knowles
7: Chris Anderson
6: Oliver Devenney
5: James Craggs, Alex-Ray Harvey
4: Michael King, Nik Kudiersky
2: own goals
1: Dil Chaggar, Ben Hoskin, Chris Lynch