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Carlisle welcome Doncaster to Cumbria tomorrow holding the advantage on previous meetings at Brunton Park. Of the 30 games played United have won 13, while Rovers have been victorious eight times.
Last season Carlisle defeated Doncaster 1-0 on the opening day of the League One campaign, Paul Murray scoring the only goal of the game for the Blues as early as the fourth minute in front of a bumper crowd of 9,433.
Carlisle's biggest home win over Doncaster was a 6-0 thumping in the 1963-64 Division Four promotion winning season. The goals that day coming from Johnny Evans (3), Hugh McIlmoyle, Reg Davies and Sam Taylor as 4,753 spectators looked on. The best margin of victory for Rovers at Brunton Park was a 2-0 win in the Third Division North in 1932-33, the attendance for that match being 4,429.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2007/2008 | Sat 12 Jan | Doncaster | 1 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 03 Feb | Doncaster | 1 - 2 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 05 Aug | Carlisle | 1 - 0 | Doncaster | LGE1 |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 08 May | Doncaster | 1 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE2 |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 29 Nov | Carlisle | 0 - 1 | Doncaster | LGE2 |
| 1996/1997 | Sat 29 Mar | Carlisle | 0 - 0 | Doncaster | LGE2 |
| 1996/1997 | Sat 17 Aug | Doncaster | 0 - 1 | Carlisle | LGE2 |
Recent respective form guides
Carlisle could not have a more impressive recent home form, having won each of the last six games at Brunton Park. These high-scoring games have yielded a total of 13 goals for the Cumbrians and six against.
Doncaster's away form is equally impressive, with an unbeaten run in the last six, four of them victories. Those games have seen Rovers pummel 12 goals home and let in just two.
Carlisle are just outside the automatic promotion places, in fourth, having taken 52 points from 30 games. Meanwhile Doncaster are holding the final promotion place in the League One table, and have accumulated 56 points from the 31 games they have played so far.
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| Last six games form guide | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Carlisle | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 |
| Doncaster | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 15 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
Carlisle are performing very well at home, but your FootyMad panel reckons that the overall quality of Doncaster will prove too much for the homesters. Away win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Carlisle | Won seven successive home games. Nine matches since last home draw. |
| Doncaster | Three successive away victories. Four games since last away draw. Last drawn game eight outings ago. |