Despite Wembley looming on the horizon for Carlisle this weekend it was still a full strength United side that took to the field at Huish Park against a relegation threatened Glovers outfit who had been showing their best form on the road of late. It was the Blues who started the stronger tonight too as Tom Taiwo's shot on a loose ball from the edge of the box was well held by Yeovil goalkeeper Stephen Henderson. The home side soon coming back into it though when Dean Bowditch headed poorly wide from an Andy Welsh cross in.
After a five minute delay midway through the half as the sprinklers accidentally gave Henderson an early bath and broke up play a little in an end-to-end opening to the match, the Glovers went very close to opening the scoring when good approach play from Shaun MacDonald, Craig Alcock and Oli Johnson saw Welsh's volley on goal beat Adam Collin only for Lubomir Michalik to head away the danger from almost on the United goal-line.
Michalik with a deflected free-kick then forcing a save out of Henderson at the other end of the pitch, before James Berrett then had a shot also ping away off a Yeovil defender. The last chance of the half, after Craig Curran had been booked for dissent for United, coming the way of the home side in injury time however when Craig Alcock's long ball over the top found Bowditch in the clear, the Glovers frontman though forcing himself wide through a poor touch as he could only eventually fire a low drive into Collin's side-netting.
Francois Zoko was then replaced by Harry Arter in the last game of Arter's loan spell during the interval with Matty Robson early on, following a MacDonald handball on the edge of his own box, then curling the free-kick inches over the top with Henderson well beaten. Obika and then Paul Huntington headed wide from Welsh set-pieces for the home side before they took the lead just before the hour-mark, Bowditch feeding in Spurs-loanee striker Obika for a well-placed finish past Collin.
Blues boss Greg Abbott then quickly used up his substitute allowance as he brought on Paddy Madden and Liam Noble for Taiwo and Berrett respectively as Carlisle came back into the game with the Glovers beginning to defend too deep, Paul Thirlwell's dipping volley first going just wide as Noble then had a shot disappear away over the top of Henderson's crossbar. In an attempt to stop increasing pressure from the visitors Town manager Terry Skiverton then making his three substitutions in the space of six minutes as he brought off Johnson, Welsh and Alcock and replaced them with Nathan Smith, Andy Williams and Luke Ayling.
Ayling, along with Michalik, soon got themselves in the book before five minutes from time Carlisle missed their best chance to equalise when from three yards out Ben Marshall somehow blazed a volley over the top from Noble's inswinging free-kick to the Yeovil back-post. Paul Wotton then shot wide for the Glovers from range before referee Graham Horwood limped off with an injury in the 88th minute to be replaced by fourth official Andrew Rodda. A massive seven minutes of injury time then followed with Henderson making an excellent save from Carlisle's Frank Simek deep into those added on minutes to preserve all three points for Yeovil.