{"id":2159,"date":"2026-10-28T09:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/carabao-cup-arsenal-set-unwanted-record-in-shock-defeat-to-4th-division-side-fleetwood-town\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T09:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:16:02","slug":"carabao-cup-arsenal-set-unwanted-record-in-shock-defeat-to-4th-division-side-fleetwood-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/carabao-cup-arsenal-set-unwanted-record-in-shock-defeat-to-4th-division-side-fleetwood-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabao Cup: Arsenal Set Unwanted Record In Shock Defeat To 4th Division Side Fleetwood Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal set an unwanted record following their shock defeat to fourth division side Fleetwood Town in round 16 of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood Town pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Carabao Cup history as they edged out Arsenal 5-3 on penalties after regulation time finished 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners were left shell-shocked when Aaron Loupalo-Bi gave the hosts \u2013 ranked 84 places below the Gunners in the football pyramid \u2013 an unexpected lead in the 21st minute.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Gyokeres pulled the visitors level after the break, but a wasteful Arsenal side could not put the game to bed and they were reduced to 10-men in the 86th minute when teenage starlet Max Dowman kicked out after a hefty tackle by Harrison Neal.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Lynch made two sublime saves to stop Ben White and Martin Odegaard right at the death to take the hosts to penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>And the Fleetwood goalkeeper pulled off more heroics as he stopped Bruno Guimaraes\u2019 spot kick before Conor Haughey sparked scenes of ecstasy at Highbury Stadium by converting the winning penalty.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"csa1x-widget csbw-odds-card\" aria-label=\"Match odds\">\n<p><label class=\"csbw-oddschip\"><span class=\"csbw-oddsbar__label\">Show odds<\/span><button class=\"csbw-oddsswitch\" type=\"button\" role=\"switch\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-label=\"Show odds\" data-csbw-global=\"1\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"csa1x-actions\">\n<details class=\"csa1x-tipster-details csbw-article-tips\">\n<summary class=\"csa1x-tipster-toggle\">Match prediction<\/summary>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/why-i-left-arsenal-for-chelsea-giroud-reveals\/\">Why I Left Arsenal For Chelsea  \u2014 Giroud Reveals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now according to Squawka on X, Arsenal are the first reigning Premier League champions to be knocked out of the League Cup by a fourth-tier side.<\/p>\n<p>Also it is only the second time Arsenal have been knocked out of the League Cup by a fourth-tier side, after Bradford in 2012\/13. Both on penalties. <\/p>\n<p>Arsenal would hope to bounce back from the defeat to Fleetwood when they travel to Anfield to face Liverpool in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal set an unwanted record following their shock defeat to fourth division side Fleetwood Town in round 16 of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday. Fleetwood Town pulled off one of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}