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The Blues travel to Kent this weekend needing to turn round their fortunes at the KRBS Priestfield Stadium. United hoping to improve on a record which has seen them lose eleven and win only four of the 22 games played in Gillingham.
Two seasons ago in League One the two sides fought out a dour 0-0 draw in Kent in late March 2008 as 6,673 spectators looked on. The best chance of breaking the stalemate in the match coming in the 57th minute when Simeon Jackson for the home side crashed a long range shot back off the Carlisle crossbar.
Gillingham's biggest victory at home over the Blues was in the 1961-62 campaign when they trounced United 4-1 in the old Fourth Division, George Walker bagging the solitary strike for the Cumbrians in front of 5,483 spectators.
Meanwhile all Carlisle's four wins at the KRBS Priestfield Stadium have come by a narrow one goal margin, one of those victories being one of only two wins on the road in United's disastrous 1991-92 season which saw them finish bottom of the Football League, Michael Holmes and Andy Watson scoring the United goals that day in a 2-1 win that saw a paltry crowd of only 2,179 fans watching on.
Carlisle only being saved from relegation into the then Vauxhall Conference at the end of that dire campaign as the league was supposedly expanding to 94 clubs, Aldershot stumping that idea though as they went out of business and resigned from the league on the 25th of March 1992.
For a detailed analysis of the head-to-head between the two sides, click here
| Recent encounters between the teams | |||||
| 2007/2008 | Sat 29 Mar | Gillingham | 0 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2007/2008 | Sat 20 Oct | Carlisle | 2 - 0 | Gillingham | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 24 Mar | Carlisle | 5 - 0 | Gillingham | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 28 Oct | Gillingham | 2 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 1997/1998 | Sat 21 Feb | Gillingham | 1 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 1997/1998 | Sat 27 Sep | Carlisle | 2 - 1 | Gillingham | LGE1 |
| 1994/1995 | Sat 08 Apr | Carlisle | 2 - 0 | Gillingham | LGE2 |
Recent respective form guides
Gillingham are unbeaten in their last six home games, winning five of them, and drawing the other one. The Gills have scored a healhy ten times and conceded just three during this period.
The Cumbrians have had a decent run of form away from home recently, coming away with three points on three occasions, but drawing one and losing two of their last six matches on the road. The Blues have a narrow positive goal difference over these high-scoring games, with 13 for and 12 against.
Gillingham find themselves struggling down in 18th position in the League One table having picked up 21 points from their 19 matches contested to date. Carlisle's 23 points picked up from their 19 games played sees them lie just inside the top half of the table on the other hand, in 12th place.
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| Last six games form guide | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Gillingham | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 12 |
| Carlisle | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 12 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
A creditable return from recent away games for the Cumbrians could well see them head back from the KRBS Priestfield Stadium with a share of the spoils, think the FootyMad panel. Score draw
| Sequence statistics | |
| Gillingham | Won four successive home games. Not drawn a match in their last seven. |
| Carlisle | Six games since last away draw. Last drawn match eight outings ago. |