First-half goals from Adebola Oluwo and Daniel Udoh boosted Salford's automatic promotion hopes as they won at Oldham.
The Ammies took advantage of Notts County and Swindon dropping points to climb to fourth, a point outside the top three, on the back of an impressive first-half display.
Oluwo struck early, heading the visitors in front after only four minutes when he climbed to meet Luke Garbutt's free-kick.
Udoh doubled the advantage in first-half stoppage time, finishing well from Ryan Graydon's header.
Graydon had the chance to hit Oldham on the break and add a third early in the second half, but he instead squared to Udoh, whose bundled shot was saved by Matthew Hudson.
Oldham were all but mathematically out of the play-off picture going into the game but still showed plenty of fight and pulled a goal back through Josh Hawkes' glorious chip, but it was no more than a consolation.
Report supplied by PA Media.
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