Carlisle United 0-4 Mansfield Town

Mansfield fired themselves towards the League Two automatic promotion places with an emphatic 4-0 win at woeful Carlisle.

Goals from captain Ollie Clarke, Alfie Kilgour, Lucas Akins and Elliott Hewitt condemned Paul Simpson's men 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-placed 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.

Kilgour bagged his third goal in four games as he thundered home a header from Davis Keillor-Dunn's 25th-minute corner.

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 score 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.

It could have been even worse for the home side, as Will Swan hit the post late on for the visitors.

Match report supplied by PA Media.