Manager Paul Simpson decided on a front-foot approach at Salford and it paid rich dividends.
Carlisle United produced their best performance of the season to win 4-1 and consolidate a place in the play-off places.
Although Salford had pulled back level on 52 minutes, and the game was on a knife edge, a second Carlisle goal proved crucial.
From that point they were completely dominant and two further goals added deserved lustre to the final score-line.
Salford had been on a five-match winless run and the way Carlisle despatched them in the final quarter suggests the end to that run might not be in sight.
Not for the first time this season Carlisle made a cracking start with a goal on three minutes by top scorer Kristian Dennis.
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Tomas Holy had to make a couple of good saves after that but Carlisle deserved to get to the interval still ahead.
Salford hadn’t scored a goal in that five-game winless run so there were added celebrations when Matt Smith made it 1-1 on 52 minutes.
The next ten minutes could have decided the game but it was Carlisle who got back in front on 67 minutes through Callum Guy.
Without a goal to his name before this season Guy is enjoying a rich vein of scoring form and his latest was driven home from the edge of the area.
Corey Whelan benefitted from some poor marking to head in Carlisle’s third on 72 minutes and Salford wilted.
United were in complete control and ten minutes from time Dennis headed home his second to the delight of the huge travelling Blues army of 1,315.
