Ten-man Manukau City reached the quarterfinals of the ASB Chatham Cup after upsetting Papatoetoe in a dramatic 4-3 fourth round penalty shootout win today.
The home side, who ply their trade in third tier of the Northern region, fell a goal behind to first division Papatoetoe just before halftime through Gurjeet Singh but battled hard and drew level just before fulltime through a William McClure penalty.
Even that had a touch of extra drama about it with McClure first attempt saved by goalkeeper Jason Mann who moved early and earned a retake for McClure who gladly converted to cue extra time.
Manukau's fortunes seemed to falter when Mohammed Imraz Shah was sent off in the first period of extra time but they kept the scores level to send the game to a penalty shootout.
Despite missing their first attempt, Manukau held their nerve better than Papatoetoe who missed the target twice to hand their South Auckland neighbours an upset win.
