Man United shocked by fourth-tier Grimsby Town in penalty kicks, bounced from League Cup in second round

The hits keep coming for Ruben Amorim’s Manchester UnitedThat recovered from a 2-0 deficit on Wednesday to lose 12-11 in a penalty shootout to League Two Side Grimsby Town and leave the Eleven Cup in the second round.

Grimsby first struck with the opening goal of the game in the 22nd minute thanks to Charles heard, the hosts benefit after a lukewarm start to play for the visitors. United At that time, Grimsby surpassed 58.2% to 41.8%, but the two parties had each made three shots, Grimsby clearly the more efficient team. The hosts had two shots on the goal and 0.24 expected goals, while the Red Devils did not have to put any attempt on frame and at that time only 0.1 expected goals had collected.

It went from bad to worse for United Eight minutes later, when Grimsby scored a second thanks to Tyrell Warren on a corner. United keeper Andre Onan seemed to be in a perfect position to take the inswing ball, making a well-timed jump to do this, but he never got the ball really and Warren was able to put him in the back of an empty net.

Amorim brought three rest changes and in a more dominant second half that the Red Devils saw more offensive initiative, they came with two late goals to send the game to penalties. First came the goal of Bryan Mbeumo in the 75th minute, causing the replacement to ran to the edge of the penalty area before making a clinical shot. Harry MaguireHowever, the score in the 89th minute equated with a classic header of a set piece to send the game to penalties.

Onana made up for his first half mistake by making a salvation about Clarke Oduor’s penalty early in the shootout and United was about to progress, but Grimsby goalkeeper Christy Pym saved a salvation Matheus Cunha’s Spot kick, so that the shooting is sent in sudden death. The penalty shootout was so long that both keepers were on site and scored, so that different players had to participate in a second round of spot kicks. In the end, Mbeumo hit the bar in the 13th round to ensure that Grimsby would continue after a 12-11 victory in the shootout.

United is on the way to a winless start of the season with one loss and two draw, which extends Amorim’s poor form since he took the helm at United in November.