Former Sheffield United midfielder Louis Reed scored twice against his boyhood club as League One Mansfield Town stunned the Blades in a thrilling seven-goal FA Cup third-round tie.<\/b><\/p>\n
Two excellent strikes from Reed before half-time, either side of Gus Hamer’s beautiful dipping strike from 20 yards, gave the Stags a deserved 2-1 lead at the break against their Championship opponents.<\/p>\n
Buoyed on by approximately 5,000 visiting supporters, Mansfield raced into a three-goal lead soon after the interval through Lucas Akins and Rhys Oates.<\/p>\n
But a goal from Blades substitute Patrick Bamford, as well as an own goal from Mansfield’s Nathan Moriah-Welsh, meant the Stags had a nervy final 25 minutes to see out.<\/p>\n
United heaped on the pressure in the final stages as they searched for an equaliser but the visitors saw out the match to claim a famous win and clinch a fourth victory on the bounce in all competitions.<\/p>\n
Reed returned to Sheffield United where he began his career and was handed his debut as a 16-year-old – becoming the club’s youngest ever appearance-maker in the league – by now Stags boss Nigel Clough.<\/p>\n
“Back where it all began, bit of a bitter-sweet moment obviously because it’s against the team I support but what a result for all those fans behind the goal, and the team,” Reed told BBC Radio Nottingham.<\/p>\n
“I just said to [Rhys] Oatesy then, in the warm-up, I think it’s one of the worst performances I’ve had in the shooting drill before but I suppose if you use them up there, they don’t come out in the game.<\/p>\n
“I’ve not come up with many goals while I’ve been here so two is just brilliant. I think the first one is better, the second one took a bit of a deflection, but I’m still claiming it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sheffield United midfielder Louis Reed scored twice against his boyhood club as League One Mansfield Town stunned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115880913022021112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}