Burnley 2-0 Gillingham

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Burnley cemented their play-off place as second half goals from Ian Moore and David Johnson gave them victory over Gillingham.

The win lifted Burnley above Millwall into fourth place.

It also ended a miserable run of home form that had seen them win just one of their previous nine encounters at Turf Moor.

Burnley, with much more to play for than their middle-of-the-table opponents, started brightly and could have opened the scoring inside three minutes when Johnson dragged his shot across the face of goal from six yards.

It needed the alert Barry Ashby to block Lee Briscoe's goalbound strike in the seventh minute.

Positive Burnley

That represented the last meaningful act for some time as Gillingham began to gain a foothold in the match.

Burnley were more positive after the break and it took less than five minutes of the restart for them to threaten the visitors' goal, although Moore's header was little more than catching practice for Brown.

Ternent's men got their reward for a more attacking approach when Little crossed for Moore to fire home from six yards in the 55th minute.

Burnley goalkeeper Nik Michopoulos had his fingers stung by Shaw's long-range strike, but Johnson doubled the Clarets' lead after 62 minutes.

Racing on to Davis' perceptive through-ball, Johnson beat Barry Ashby before slotting the ball under the advancing Brown for his fifth goal in six games since joining on loan from Nottingham Forest.

Johnson was replaced by Gareth Taylor 13 minutes from time, and with him went much of Burnley's threat up front.

Chris Hope's speculative left-foot volley 20 yards out was the highlight of the latter stages, and the nearest Gillingham came to grabbing a consolation arrived in the final minute when Michopoulos saved well from Smith.

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Burnley: Michopoulos, West, Thomas, Davis, Gnohere, Briscoe, Ball, Grant, Little, Ian Moore, Johnson. Subs: Armstrong, Gascoigne, Taylor, Weller, Payton.

Gillingham: Brown, Ashby, Butters, Hope, Gooden, Shaw, Browning, Saunders, Smith, Perpetuini, Onuora. Subs: Bartram, Ipoua, Rose, James, Spiller.

Referee: C Webster (Shotley Bridge, Co Durham).