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United played a 4-4-2 system in the first-half with Simon Hackney, ready for action after his serious injury last season, pushing up on the left to join the front two of Graham and Kevin Gall. The opening goal of a competitive game came the way of Carlisle after 14 minutes, a lovely ball through from Chris Lumsdon found Gall 20 yards out who was left with the simple task of lobbing into an empty net as Deasy raced from his line.
Chris Howarth was forced into an excellent fingertip save from Barrow's Andy Bond piledriver later in the period but it was typical pre-season fare on long grass for the most of the half. United fielded a completely different side after the break with new signing Marc Bridge-Wilkinson on the right of midfield and trialists Reggie Faria and Ged Dalton featuring on either side of Danny Carlton in a front three.
Carlton particularly impressed in the second-half with his hard work upfront and he was unlucky not to open his Carlisle account five minutes in when his 18-yard effort beat the despairing dive of Deasy only to smack back off the crossbar. The Blues did go 2-0 up on the hour-mark though when Dutch trialist Faria was left with a simple six-yard tap-in following a low cross in from the left by Carlton.
The game faded out a little from there on an uncharacteristically warm afternoon although Carlton did have further chances to score only to be denied by two good stops from Barrow's trialist goalkeeper Chris Pritchard. The final whistle signalled a 2-0 win for Carlisle in a very useful run-out with Faria certainly impressing in his 45 minute trialist role on the right-wing.
Barrow line-up :
Tim Deasy (Chris Pritchard 70), Lee Woodyatt (Jack Overson 46 and Phil Husbands 74)), Chris Butler, Paul Jones (Iain Swan 70), Steve McNulty, Dave Bayliss (Josh Gray 60), Andy Bond (Peter McGuire 74), Darren Sheridan, Peter Thomson, Nick Rogan (Kyle Wilson 79), Lee Hoolickin (Lee Woodyatt 54).
United line-up in first-half :
Chris Howarth (Adam Bradley 34), David Raven, Matthew Duffy, Dan Kirkup, Peter Murphy, Paul Thirlwell (c), Neale McDermott, Chris Lumsdon, Danny Graham, Kevin Gall, Simon Hackney.
United line-up in second-half :
Adam Bradley (Keiren Westwood 58), Paul Arnison, Zigor Aranalde, Dan Wordsworth, Danny Livesey (c), Jeff Smith, Luke Joyce, Marc Bridge-Wilkinson, Ged Dalton, Danny Graham, Reggie Faria.
Unused substitutes :
Matthew Brown, Stephen Hindmarch and Matthew Wood.
Referee - Clive Oliver (Ashington).
Attendance - 888.