Lewis solves case

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KEITH MILLEN admitted it was far from the ideal start after his first game in charge of Carlisle ended in defeat.

The visitors, on an eight-game winless run, failed to make the most of a decent start before falling behind to a Paul Lewis goal (above) late in the first half.

There was only one winner from then on as Lewis completed his hat-trick in the second half to send Carlisle down into the relegation places.

“Obviously it’s not the start we wanted,” admitted Millen. “The goals we conceded are poor and those are the sort of goals you tend to concede when you’re on a bad run.

“But take the goals out of it and I thought we were OK in the first half, we were solid.

“With a bit of luck we might have scored the first goal and I think that would have been huge for this group of players.

“We have to find a way of being better and more effective with what we’ve got.”

Northampton have won their last four in a row, keeping a clean sheet in all of them.

Manager Jon Brady said: “It’s good to get the points on the board and to have four wins in a row is really positive.”