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History of the Bury v Carlisle United fixture

Carlisle pack their bags to visit Bury at Gigg Lane on Tuesday evening, hoping to improve on a pretty good previous return from this fixture away to Bury. Of the 17 games played between the two sides, the Cumbrians have recorded six wins and five draws, while Bury have only notched up six victories. Last season in League One, in mid-August 2011, the Blues winning 2-0 thanks to goals from James Berrett in the 68th minute and then Liam Noble in stoppage time as 3,640 fans looked on.

The last time the teams met at Gigg Lane before that was in the League Cup first round in August 2007, the Blues winning the game 1-0 thanks to a 12th minute Danny Graham goal in front of 2,213 spectators. As for Football League action United also won 1-0 at Bury in the League Two title winning campaign of 2005-06, Carlisle's only goal that Friday evening being scored by Raphael Nade in the 57th minute as 3,190 fans looked on.

The Cumbrians having now picked up three points at Gigg Lane four times in a row as one of their other four wins, with United never having beaten the Shakers by more than a two-goal margin away from home, came in the 2003-04 Division Three relegation campaign courtesy of a 3-1 victory. The Carlisle goals, on Boxing Day, in only United's third win of the season being netted after the Blues had gone 1-0 behind on the half-hour mark through Chris Porter for the Shakers.

Carlisle came roaring back though, in front of 3,345 fans, with Kevin Gray (41), Brendan McGill (57) and Kevin Henderson (69) guiding the Cumbrians to a rare win in that first half of the season. As for Bury, their best victory over Carlisle is easily a 6-0 win in late February 1993 at fourth tier level, the Shakers scoring all their goals in a horrendous first-half for United as 2,723 spectators looked on, former Blue Ian Stevens netting twice for Bury that Saturday afternoon.

Recent encounters between the teams

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Recent respective form guides

Bury's disastrous home run has meant they have managed only two draws, alongside four defeats from their last six matches at Gigg Lane. The Shakers have conceded a hefty ten goals in this period, and managed to convert only three of their own chances. Carlisle's away form meanwhile is just on the wrong side of average in their last six games on the road, United picking up two good wins and a draw but losing three. The Cumbrians have scored seven goals in these games, but have also conceded nine.

Winless Bury currently find themselves stuck right at the bottom of the division, with their nine games contested to date only yielding four points. Carlisle's 12 points from their nine games played so far though sees them lie just inside the top half of the npower League One table, in 12th position.

Current overall team form

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FootyMad's prediction ...

It's been a relatively good run of form for the Cumbrians of late away from home, and your FootyMad panel sees things further improving, starting here at Gigg Lane with Carlisle coasting to victory..... Away win

Sequence statistics

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