Carlisle United will be out to achieve the club's best run of league clean sheets for nearly FOURTEEN years this weekend.

The improving Blues have already put together three consecutive shut-outs in League Two.

And a fourth on the spin against Crawley Town on Saturday would be the best such sequence by a Carlisle side since February-March 2008.

Not since John Ward's League One promotion-chasers kept out Doncaster Rovers, Crewe Alexandra, Nottingham Forest and Brighton & Hove Albion that season have a United team gone four in a row without conceding in the league.

News and Star: The 2007/8 Carlisle United side kept four straight clean sheets in League One in February-March (photo: Stuart Walker)The 2007/8 Carlisle United side kept four straight clean sheets in League One in February-March (photo: Stuart Walker)

That feat is now within reach of Keith Millen's League Two side after clean sheets in victories against Stevenage, Scuthorpe United and Bradford City.

The current run means United have not conceded for five hours and 54 minutes of league action.

The last league goal they shipped in League Two football was Stephen McLaughlin's early header for Mansfield Town on December 7.

Since then, a back line including Morgan Feeney, Rod McDonald, Kelvin Mellor, Jack Armer and keeper Mark Howard have been totally resolute.

This weekend's game, meanwhile, also offers United the chance of their best winning run in more than a year.

If they make it four in a row against Crawley it will be their best winning sequence since December 2020, when Chris Beech's side overcame Salford City, Bradford, Stevenage and Mansfield.

Opponents Crawley are in good form themselves, having won their last three league games.

The Red Devils have not, though, won in seven visits to Brunton Park.