{"id":29109,"date":"2025-08-28T05:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/grimsby-knocks-out-manchester-united-in-cup-half-furious-goalkeeper-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:12:51","slug":"grimsby-knocks-out-manchester-united-in-cup-half-furious-goalkeeper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/grimsby-knocks-out-manchester-united-in-cup-half-furious-goalkeeper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimsby Knocks Out Manchester United in Cup: “Half Furious” Goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grimsby Town Eliminates Manchester United in an Epic Penalty Shootout<\/h2>\n\nGrimsby Town goalkeeper Christy Pym expressed his disbelief after his team’s victory over Manchester United in a thrilling penalty shootout, with a final score of 12-11, which sealed their passage in the Carabao Cup.\n\nThe encounter, which kept spectators on the edge of their seats, culminated in an 18-minute penalty shootout after the match ended in a 2-2 draw after the regulation 90 minutes at Blundell Park.\n\nPym, who revealed himself to be a Manchester United fan, commented: “I still can’t believe it. I’m a Man United fan, so I’m a little upset. But nights like this are the reason we play football. Simply brilliant.”\n\n\n

I should have done a little better [in the penalty shootout], shouldn’t I? I made a save to keep us in the game and the lads did the rest. It’s brilliant.”<\/p>Christy Pym<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCharles Vernam put the League Two team ahead in the 22nd minute with a powerful shot that went into the first post of United’s goalkeeper, Andre Onana.\n\nThe Mariners continued to put pressure on their Premier League rivals and were rewarded with a second goal before the break, when Onana failed to intercept Vernam’s cross and Tyrell Warren deflected the ball into the net.\n\nMbeumo scored with his first goal for United in the 75th minute and Harry Maguire scored the equalizing goal in the 89th minute.\n\nVernam admitted that his nerves almost played a trick on him during the penalty shootout.\n\n\n

It was a nervous wait. When it goes on and on, you never know. We scored and thought ‘we have a chance’ and then they kept scoring.<\/p>Charles Vernam<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHe continued saying: “It’s an incredible feeling, one that will live with us forever. The message throughout the week has been about belief and knowing how good we are, and the coach has instilled that in us.”\n\nHe told us not only to show up, there’s always an opportunity if we play the right way with the right intensity. Why wouldn’t it be us?\n\n\u201cSo achieving that is an incredible feeling and we are going to enjoy the moment.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grimsby Town Eliminates Manchester United in an Epic Penalty Shootout Grimsby Town goalkeeper Christy Pym expressed his disbelief after his team’s victory over Manchester United in a thrilling penalty shootout, with a final score of 12-11, which sealed their passage in the Carabao Cup. The encounter, which kept spectators on the edge of their seats, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[7180,7942,143,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-29109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-carabao-cup","9":"tag-grimsby","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-penalties"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}