Carabao Cup: Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Mansfield Town (4-5 on pens) - Stags reach third round

Mansfield's Christy Pym made a couple of saves in the penalty shootout against Sheffield Wednesday

Christy Pym was the Mansfield Town hero as they pulled off a Carabao Cup penalty shootout win against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

The Stags keeper made a series of saves in normal time to keep the League Two side in contention after Anthony Musaba headed Wednesday ahead.

Rhys Oates produced a superb equaliser with five minutes left to send the game to spot kicks.

Pym saved from Will Vaulks but Cameron Dawson also produced a stop from Will Swan to take it to sudden death.

After Aden Flint scored against his former club, Pym produced another terrific save to deny Liam Palmer and put Mansfield in the third round.

Wednesday are yet to win a game in conventional fashion this season, having scraped through the first round in this competition in a penalty shootout against Stockport and they have lost all four league games in the Championship in a poor start under Xisco Munoz.

For most of this game it looked like that run would end after Josh Windass crossed, Callum Patterson headed across goal, and Musaba applied the finish.

Windass then hit the bar and Pym produced fine saves to deny Michael Ihiekwe, Windass and Juan Delgado to keep the Stags alive.

Oates cut in from the left and curled in the equaliser and Mansfield kept their nerve in the shootout to progress into the third round.

Sheffield Wednesday manager Xisco Munoz told BBC Radio Sheffield:

"I'm a little bit disappointed about the result again. We need to change our attitude in some moments of the game - if we don't change this attitude it is impossible.

"We shot 25 times, had clear chances, and didn't score. It is impossible to lose the game when you have 20 chances, play good and lose.

"The last two minutes before the [Mansfield] goal I don't know what happened. You can explain things every day but this is professional football and we start thinking about the responsibility everyone has."

Mansfield goalkeeper Christy Pym told BBC Radio Nottingham:

"It's always nice. As a goalkeeper, you're the one that's going to be the hero at the end of the day but you're never really backed to save a penalty.

"It's just nice to get that one save. You don't really want to go through a penalty shootout and not save one.

"I went the wrong way a couple of times and was like, 'Come on, you need to get one.' I got the next one and knew then we were going to go through and win.

"You saw how confident the boys were taking [the penalties] but I fancied us to go on and win the game in normal time - I thought we were brilliant.

"They were a Championship side and couldn't get near us. With the quality they've got they are going to get one or two chances, but we limited them to not too many and on the ball we were excellent."