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Carlisle face a trip to Oldham tomorrow lunchtime, needing to turn round their fortunes at Boundary Park. The Blues hoping to better a record which has seen them lose 19 and win only seven of the 33 games played there.
Last season in League One, Carlisle produced one of their worst performances of the season as they went down 2-0 at Oldham on a Tuesday night in late January. Gary McDonald scoring both Latics goals in the first-half, on 21 and 44 minutes, as just 4,701 spectators looked on.
Oldham's biggest win over the Blues at Boundary Park was a thumping 6-0 victory, with 9,325 fans in attendance, way back in the Division Three North Season of 1938-39. Meanwhile Carlisle's biggest margin of victory at the home of Latics has twice been by a two goal difference.
The first win being by a 2-0 scoreline in the post-war campaign of 1946-47, again in Division Three North, with the United goalscorers being Ivor Broadis and Jim Moir as 7,696 spectators looked on. The second victory being a 4-2 success in the same division in 1952-53, the scorers for the Blues that day, in front of a bumper 20,397 fans, being Jimmy Whitehouse with a brace, and Robert Harrison and Alan Ashman with single strikes.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2007/2008 | Tue 29 Jan | Oldham | 2 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2007/2008 | Sat 18 Aug | Carlisle | 1 - 0 | Oldham | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sat 03 Mar | Carlisle | 1 - 1 | Oldham | LGE1 |
| 2006/2007 | Sun 27 Aug | Oldham | 0 - 0 | Carlisle | LGE1 |
| 2005/2006 | Tue 18 Oct | Oldham | 1 - 1 | Carlisle | ASSM |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 08 Nov | Oldham | 3 - 0 | Carlisle | FAC |
| 2002/2003 | Tue 22 Oct | Oldham | 3 - 4 | Carlisle | ASSM |
Recent respective form guides
Oldham are not in the best of form at home at the moment, with two wins, two draws, and two defeats in their last six matches at Boundary Park. The goals for column just outweighs the goals against over this period at eight to seven.
The away form of Carlisle is pretty dire though, accumulating just one victory, that coming in the FA Cup at Grays, and one draw from their last six games played away from Brunton Park. The Cumbrians having conceded a hefty eleven goals in those matches and only scored three themselves in reply.
Oldham's excellent total of 40 points from their 22 games played sees them sitting in the play-off places, in fourth, in the League One table. Carlisle meanwhile find themselves struggling down in 17th position having picked up just 24 points from their 22 matches contested to date.
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| Last six games form guide | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Oldham | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 12 |
| Carlisle | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
FootyMad see this game edging towards a narrow win for the Latics, as the Cumbrians have been none too clever on the road in recent matches. Home win
| Sequence statistics | |
| Oldham | Drawn last two games at home. Overall unbeaten run of six matches. |
| Carlisle | Last drawn game four outings ago. Not won in previous two away matches. |