{"id":15955,"date":"2025-08-28T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=631767"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:51:22","slug":"carabao-cup-2025-26-man-united-get-a-major-shock-as-4th-division-grimsby-town-knock-them-out-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/carabao-cup-2025-26-man-united-get-a-major-shock-as-4th-division-grimsby-town-knock-them-out-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup 2025\/26: Man United get a major shock as 4th division Grimsby Town knock them out on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have been removed from Carabao Cup 2025\/26 Grimsby Town, the 4th division English side in the last night\u2019s fixture. Man United were deeply hurt by 4th division side as the club lost on penalties. Grimsby took the lead and we\u2019re 2-0 until 75th minute. Though United equalised the scoreline they lost 11-12 in the penalties. It was the end of their journey in the Carabao Cup 2025\/26 in the very first game and now they have only FA Cup and Premier League to showcase something.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United suffered a shocking exit from the Carabao Cup 2025\/26 after being eliminated by League Two side Grimsby Town in the third round on penalties. The Red Devils\u2019 journey in the competition ended before it could even begin, with Grimsby pulling off one of the biggest upsets of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-division outfit stunned Old Trafford by taking a commanding 2-0 lead and held on until the 75th minute. United fought back with two late goals to force the tie into penalties, but the shootout turned into a marathon that eventually ended 12-11 in Grimsby\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat leaves Manchester United with only the Premier League and FA Cup to focus on for the remainder of the campaign. For Grimsby, the result marks a historic night as they sent one of England\u2019s biggest clubs crashing out of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have been removed from Carabao Cup 2025\/26 Grimsby Town, the 4th division English side in the last night\u2019s fixture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3980,3611,3686,1823,3796,249,3793],"class_list":["post-15955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-amorim-sack","tag-andre-onana","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-manchester-united","tag-ruben-amorim"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}