Carlisle United vs Mansfield Town. Sky Bet League Two.
Brunton ParkAttendance4,645.
Carlisle United 0
Mansfield Town 4
- O Clarke (14th minute)
- A Kilgour (25th minute)
- L Akins (29th minute pen)
- E Hewitt (38th minute)
Carlisle 0-4 Mansfield: Stags continue League Two promotion push with emphatic win
Tuesday 14 February 2023 23:16, UK
Mansfield fired themselves towards the League Two automatic promotion places with an emphatic 4-0 win over woeful Carlisle on Tuesday night.
Goals from captain Ollie Clarke, Alfie Kilgour, Lucas Akins and Elliott Hewitt condemned the Cumbrians to back-to-back home defeats for the first time in a year at Brunton Park.
Nigel Clough's in-form side - now unbeaten in five games - cut the gap between themselves and the third-place Cumbrians to just three points with a potentially-vital game in hand.
Stags' skipper Clarke started the rout in the 14th minute as he powered home a header, his second goal in as many games, from Stephen Quinn's cross.
In-form Kilgour bagged his third goal in four games as he thundered home a header from Davis Keillor-Dunn's 25th-minute corner.
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Keillor-Davis was at the forefront of the third goal as well as he was fouled by Morgan Feeney to earn the visitors a penalty.
Akins duly obliged and sent hapless Carlisle goalkeeper Tom Holy the wrong way to bag his seventh goal of the season - and third from the spot - on the half-hour mark.
Hewitt curled home a fourth before the break to compound Carlisle's misery, while Will Swan hit the post late on for the visitors.