Fleetwood led in the 21st minute and Arsenal replied after the interval, but neither side found another goal before the shoot-out. The striking contrast is between attempts and progression: Arsenal had 26 shots to Fleetwood’s three without establishing a winning margin in the match itself. The recorded result is 1–1, followed by a 5–3 shoot-out win for the hosts.
Combining those figures into a supposed 6–4 match score would misrepresent what happened. The event record also lists Max Dowman’s dismissal in the 85th minute, Jay Lynch’s save from Bruno Guimarães in the shoot-out and Conor Haughey’s decisive kick. Arsenal’s volume of attempts explains the pressure, but does not change who converted the decisive penalties.
Fleetwood Town 1–1 Arsenal
The ESPN event record confirms the final 1–1 score in home–away order. Recorded kick-off: 2026-10-27 22:00 in Jerusalem time.
Scoring sequence: Aaron Loupalo-Bi, 21 — Fleetwood Town; Viktor Gyökeres, 50 — Arsenal.
Shoot-out score, separate from match goals: 5.0–3.0 in home–away order.
Attempts: Fleetwood Town 3 shots, 2 on target; Arsenal 26 shots, 7 on target.
Recorded possession: 21.7% for the hosts and 78.3% for the visitors.
These matches took place before this report was published; each kick-off is dated above. Figures come from the linked event records, while the interpretation is our editorial reading of those figures.
Archival cover photograph: Highbury Stadium, Fleetwood; not an image of the current event. Photographer/creator: Steve Daniels. Image source and metadata; CC BY-SA 2.0. The Wikimedia-supplied thumbnail is used without further modification. Image date as recorded by the source: 2017-10-28.
