Saddlers top after win over Clarets

Left back Thomas Bradley

The defeat to the West Midlands club, in a game played at Lilleshall, was the first time the Clarets youngsters have failed to score in a game since October, and only the third time all season.

Walsall had drawn against Macclesfield in midweek and knew a win would take them top if Blackpool failed to beat Tranmere, meaning the Seasiders are off the top for the first time in weeks.

Elsewhere Shrewsbury gave themselves a fighting chance of getting off the bottom with a home win over Rochdale. It leaves them just one point adrift of both 'Dale and Accrington who took a hammering at Stockport whilst they are now only two points from Morecambe. Those other three clubs all have at least three games in hand on them.

Bury and Chester were the other winners in the league and Bury's win against Wigan took them above the Premier League club.

Burnley are in action on Friday this week rather than Saturday. The scheduled league game against Bury has been called off to allow us to play our Youth Alliance Cup Northern Semi-Final against Hartlepool. This will be played at Gawthorpe, kick off 2:00 p.m.

Last week's results

Macclesfield 1 Walsall 1 - played Tuesday

Chester 2 Morecambe 0
Preston v Port Vale - Postponed
Shrewsbury 3 Rochdale 2
Stockport 5 Accrington Stanley 2
Tranmere 2 Blackpool 2
Walsall 2 Burnley 0
Wigan 0 Bury 2
Wrexham 0 Carlisle 0

Forthcoming fixtures

Friday 21^st March

Burnley v Hartlepool - Youth Alliance Cup

Saturday 22^nd March

Accrington v Rochdale
Carlisle v Chester
Macclesfield v Oldham
Port Vale v Morecambe

Saturday 29^th March

Accrington v Shrewsbury
Blackpool v Stockport
Burnley v Tranmere
Bury v Walsall
Carlisle v Wigan
Morecambe v Wrexham
Oldham v Chester
Preston v Macclesfield
Rochdale v Port Vale

Burnley Goalscorers

13: Wes Fletcher
11: Alex MacDonald
9: Adam Kay
7: Rob Turner
3: James Craggs, Alex-Ray Harvey
2: Chris Lynch
1: Chris Anderson, Lewis Craig, Ben Hoskin, Nik Kudiersky, Liam Newman