The league's bottom side threatened early, with Michael Higdon firing powerfully over the crossbar.
Turkey beat bottom side Andorra to be four points further back in fourth place.
Esher welcome rivals Newbury to Molesey Road on Saturday followed by a trip to bottom side Manchester.
The Cobblers, who have lost their last three matches, now face League Two's bottom side, the managerless Bulls.
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The win lifts the Paisley side five points clear of bottom side Falkirk.
But it was a frustrating afternoon for the Premiership's bottom side after breaking their Premiership duck last weekend against Gloucester.
Australian-born three quarters Matt Mostyn and Jason Jones-Hughes helped themselves to two tries apiece as Newport romped to victory against bottom side Cross Keys.
Meanwhile in Serie A, second-place Napoli reduced the arrears with Juventus to eight points after a 3-0 win at bottom side Pescara.
And because they don't intervene on the top side and just the bottom side, you can get an asymmetry and moral hazard.
And bottom side Zaragoza continued their good recent form as a last-gasp Apono penalty gave them a 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid.
Kenya took advantage of the draw by closing the gap in third place with a 2-1 victory over bottom side Mozambique in Nairobi.
Harry Redknapp's second game in charge of Queen's Park Rangers saw the Premier League's bottom side pick up a point against Aston Villa.
The basement battle saw bottom side Broseley make 100-9, with the side immediately above them - Shelton - on 13-1 when the downpours came.
What you will find, however, is a large vent sitting right behind the display -- a trade-off for having a perfectly smooth bottom side.
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The Premiership club needed to secure a bonus-point win against the pool two bottom side to have any hopes of progressing to the quarter-finals.
Gareth Bale tormented group four bottom side Liechtenstein with a man-of-the-match display and his run and cross set up Vaughan who slid in for the first.
The draw extends Aberdeen's winless streak to nine matches, but extended Hamilton's lead over bottom side Falkirk to three points at the foot of the Scottish Premier League table.
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St Mirren remain three points off the foot of the table and head to bottom side Falkirk next week, but MacPherson is not overly concerned about a relegation battle.
Hibernian, fresh from a fine victory over Celtic, are at home to bottom side Hamilton Accies and that game will be broadcast 'as live' on BBC ALBA from 1930 GMT.
It also meant that the final match of the tournament between bottom side Australia and their trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand next weekend in Wellington will be largely played for pride.
Once results against bottom side San Marino are discounted, Scotland currently sit two points ahead of Nigel Worthington's men and one clear of Bosnia-Herzegovina, who sit second in Group Five.
Early on Catalans, missing suspended skipper Greg Bird, were unable to create much while Super League's second-bottom side Salford, looking to avoid a fifth straight defeat, were well directed by Ratchford.
Wales lead Group Three with four wins and a draw from their opening five games, but their remaining three games are away from home, starting with bottom side Bosnia on Wednesday.
There was also hope with Finland being held 1-1 away to bottom side Liechtenstein that Wales can still overhaul the Finns for third place and earn a better draw for future qualifying campaigns.
Group D is the most intriguing with all four sides in with a chance of qualifying, and top of the group Ghana visit bottom side South Africa , who are just four points behind.
In a bid to settle nerves, Benitez recently "guaranteed" Liverpool would qualify for Europe next season by finishing fourth but then just days later led his side to a 2-0 defeat to bottom side Portsmouth.
And it moved Butcher's side to within a point of the visitors - and, perhaps more importantly, four points clear of bottom side Falkirk, who were inactive this weekend and host Caley Thistle next Saturday.
Saturday's defeat left the London club level on points with bottom side Reading, who lost 2-1 at Norwich, while Stoke climbed six points clear of the relegation zone after ending a run of six defeats and a draw.
Ramos had given bottom side Hertha the lead in the eighth minute at the Olympic Stadium when he latched on to a intelligent through-ball from Cicero and directed a shot past Rene Adler from the right edge of the penalty area.
After losing to bottom side QPR and drawing with newly-promoted Southampton in their last two home games the pressure was on Benitez to deliver and his side consolidated third place thanks to goals from Spain international Juan Mata and Frank Lampard.
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