Points for the Alliance's bottom three

Nathan Lowe

Morecambe collected only their first point of the season a week earlier, drawing 0-0 against Wigan, and they doubled that tally with a second successive home draw, this time a 2-2 result against Bury.

It would have been enough to lift them off the bottom had Wrexham, as expected, lost at Shrewsbury, but they won 3-2 to edge themselves two points above the bottom club.

Wigan were third from the bottom. They'd only won once, but they doubled that with a 1-0 victory against us at Gawthorpe and that's moved them up three places in the table, passing all of Fleetwood, Shrewsbury and Accrington.

There was no change at the top. Neither of the top two, Rochdale and Walsall, played but that gave Preston a real opportunity to move in between them. A win would have seen them go two points above Walsall and level on points with leaders Rochdale although it would have taken a ten goal North End win for them to go top.

It was all academic. They drew against Carlisle and are now level with Walsall although they've played two more games than the other clubs up at the top of the league.

Oldham and Blackpool continue to threaten. Both won again and both won 4-2; Oldham beating Macclesfield and Blackpool getting a win at Accrington.

Blackpool's win took them above us and, in the one remaining game, Port Vale's win at Tranmere dropped us a further place in the table to eighth.

This week we get a break from the league with the first round of the Youth Alliance Cup with Burnley travelling to Blackpool where just nine days ago we were beaten 1-0.

All last Saturday's results are shown below along with this week's cup fixtures, Burnley's goalscorers this season and the current league table.

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS

YOUTH ALLIANCE LEAGUE

Saturday 28th September
ACCRINGTON 2 BLACKPOOL 4
BURNLEY 0 WIGAN 1
MORECAMBE 2 BURY 2
OLDHAM 4 MACCLESFIELD 2
PRESTON 1 CARLISLE 1
SHREWSBURY 2 WREXHAM 3
TRANMERE 2 PORT VALE 3

THIS WEEK'S FIXTURES

YOUTH ALLIANCE CUP

Saturday 5th October
BLACKPOOL v BURNLEY
BURTON v ROTHERHAM
BURY v LINCOLN
CARLISLE v YORK
CHESTERFIELD v NOTTS COUNTY
DONCASTER v HULL
GRIMSBY v ROCHDALE
MORECAMBE v ACCRINGTON
OLDHAM v HARTLEPOOL
PRESTON v WREXHAM
SCUNTHORPE v BRADFORD CITY
SHREWSBURY v TRANMERE
WIGAN v FLEETWOOD - to be played at Fleetwood

BURNLEY'S GOALSCORERS

4: NTUMBA MASSANKA
2: CHRISTIAN HILL, BRAD JACKSON, ALEX WHITMORE
1: LUKE DALY, KEVIN LY, KHUIS METZ, CALLUM RICHARDSON

CURRENT LEAGUE TABLE