Lincoln City make the trip to Brunton Park on Monday for the League One fixture with home team Carlisle United.
Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Carlisle United v Lincoln City are shown on this page (plus the best game odds).
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Form Guide
Carlisle United
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Carlisle United enter this game following on from a 2-2 League One stalemate against Stevenage.
The only name on the scoresheet from Carlisle United was Dan Butterworth (13', 65'). Alex MacDonald (82') and Terence Vancooten (96') scored for Stevenage.
Itโs been seldom in recent games that Carlisle United have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Carlisle United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 12 goals on the way. That kind of trend wonโt necessarily be carried forward into this game, of course.
Lincoln City
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Lincoln City will go into this encounter after a 5-0 League One win to beat Bristol Rovers in their last outing.
For Lincoln City, the goals were scored by Paudie O'Connor (11'), Joe Taylor (19', 23', 55') and Reeco Hackett-Fairchild (81').
The attacking players from Lincoln City have managed to bag an avalanche of goals over their last 6 encounters (21 in all). That translates to an outstanding mean average of 3.5 goals scored per match for this period of time.
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Head to head
Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes going back to 26/08/2017 shows us that Carlisle United have won 1 of these games and Lincoln City 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.
A total of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 6 of them for The Cumbrians and 9 being from The Red Imps. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.
The last league game featuring the two was League One match day 8 on 16/09/2023 when the final score was Lincoln City 1-1 Carlisle United.
The match was refereed by Tom Nield.
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Team News: Carlisle United
The Carlisle United boss Paul Simpson will be grateful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash with a completely healthy group ready to go.
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Team News: Lincoln City
Out of a mainly healthy group of players, thereโs only a single fitness problem for the Lincoln City boss Michael Skubala to contend with. Lewis Montsma (Cruciate ligament injury) misses out for this game.
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Prediction
Our feeling is that Carlisle United are likely to breach the defence of this Lincoln City team, although one goal isnโt likely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.
We can see both teams to score in a 1-2 victory for Lincoln City at the end of the 90 minutes. Could easily go either way, this.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite,
10:05 29/03/2024
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Carlisle United
Formed: 1904
Stadium: Brunton Park (17,949)
Captain: Paul Huntington
Chairman: Andrew Jenkins
Manager: Paul Simpson
Competitions: League One position 24
๐ Key Player: Luke Armstrong
Usually taking to the field in the Striker position, Luke Armstrong was born in Durham, England. After having played his first senior match for Cowdenbeath in the 2015 - 2016 season, the talented Forward has netted 3 league goals in the League One 2023 - 2024 campaign to date in 14 appearances.