Roberto said;
“The midfield combination of James McCarthy, James McArthur and David Jones has been working very well lately and we’ve been able to take the opportunity to freshen them up in the last week.
“James (McArthur) was rested at Villa Park and David (Jones) was given a break today suffering with a virus and had to take antibiotics this week so he wasn’t 100%. We needed to share the demands of that midfield partnership and over the next few weeks hopefully we can keep refreshing players in a big point in our season.”
A shame because Wigan ran out of steam after half an hour. Roberto could have brought on Stam, Gomez and McManaman earlier.