{"id":462913,"date":"2026-03-07T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462913\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:06:07","slug":"mansfield-town-1-2-arsenal-eze-scores-stunner-as-gunners-enter-fa-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462913\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansfield Town 1-2 Arsenal: Eze scores stunner as Gunners enter FA Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"d5a7a22a-84b8-0c73-91a5-ec1567746a6e\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/251400\/eberechi-eze\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eberechi Eze<\/a> came off the bench to score the eventual winner as <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> overcame a spirited Mansfield side to enter the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners took the lead in the first half against the run of play through <a data-player-guid=\"e8393d3a-a2e5-b262-f720-eccb7252e525\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/293236\/noni-madueke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noni Madueke<\/a> before the hosts drew level soon after the break through Will Evans.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief period, it looked there was another cup upset on the cards but Eze smashed home a stunning goal minutes after coming on to drag the Gunners into the next round.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time since the 2019-20 season that Arsenal have made the quarterfinals. The last time they did so, they won the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fact that Arsenal remain in the hunt on all four front this season, Mikel Arteta will take encouragement from 16-year-old <a data-player-guid=\"8ae83f90-1c56-3fc5-b7f5-7cbe62abf427\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/397263\/max-dowman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Dowman<\/a>&#8216;s showing on an afternoon he became the youngest-ever Arsenal player to start in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Re-live the game here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eberechi Eze came off the bench to score the eventual winner as Arsenal overcame a spirited Mansfield side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}