Wigan meanwhile moved up into fifth in the table after thumping Blackpool 5-2 at home, the Seasiders now having conceded a mammoth 71 goals in the league this season. They did manage to keep a rare clean sheet on Wednesday afternoon though in their first outing of the week when they drew 0-0 away to second-bottom Morecambe.
Port Vale have collapsed in the last two months of the season and they lost again on Saturday in their final game of the campaign, that being a 3-2 defeat at home to Shrewsbury. The Valiants now looking like they will finish in the bottom half of the table after occupying fourth spot for the majority of the season.
Two clubs now on the same points as Vale are Macclesfield and last season's title-winners Walsall, those teams fighting out a 1-1 draw at the home of the Silkmen at the weekend. The final game played in the division this week saw a rapidly improving Rochdale side win 2-1 on the road at a struggling Bury outfit.
This Saturday coming Carlisle's title challenge looks it will be finally over if, as expected, Wrexham defeat rock-bottom Accrington Stanley at home in their closing fixture of the campaign. Burnley meanwhile can still overtake the Red Dragons but a horrendous run of eleven youth and reserve games in three weeks to close out their season could be their stumbling block.
Result in the division on Wednesday 8th April
Morecambe 0-0 Blackpool (2pm)
Results in the division on Saturday 11th April
Burnley 2-0 Tranmere Rovers
Bury 1-2 Rochdale
Macclesfield Town 1-1 Walsall
Port Vale 2-3 Shrewsbury
Wigan Athletic 5-2 Blackpool
Fixture in the division on Tuesday 14th April
Tranmere Rovers v Stockport County (2pm)
Fixture in the division on Thursday 16th April
Morecambe v Accrington Stanley (11am)
Fixtures in the division on Saturday 18th April
Chester City v Blackpool
Macclesfield Town v Burnley
Shrewsbury Town v Carlisle United (1pm)
Stockport County v Morecambe
Tranmere Rovers v Oldham Athletic
Walsall v Preston North End
Wigan Athletic v Rochdale
Wrexham v Accrington Stanley
Fixture in the division on Monday 20th February
Burnley v Shrewsbury Town (1pm)
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