Wigan Athletic 1 West Bromwich Albion 0

WIGAN ATHLETIC
Moses 70

Latics were coming off the back of a great draw against Liverpool, but in the back of their minds they will have known that the result on Wednesday could and should have been better.

This game started off with two teams playing the same formation and the same tempo and as such cancelled each other out in every department.

The only breaks came to Latics as their possession took toll, but the goal didn’t seem to be forthcoming. There were plenty of efforts, Gomez and N’Zogbia came close on a couple of occasions.

Tom Cleverley was having another fine game and come close to opening the scoring early on. Even Steve Gohouri came close but he saw his shot go agonisingly past the post.

There were some entertaining but frustrating periods where both teams cancelled each other in the first half, but the promising signs were that it was only Latics that looked anything like they were going to score.

Apart from a couple of efforts from Rodallega and N’Zogbia the opening 45 ended at a stalemate, but at least the Wigan fans were looking forward to the second half after dominating proceedings in the first.

The second half started with Jordi Gomez giving way for Victor Moses and what an impact he was to have.

In a game that was heading to a stalemate, he took the incentive and almost immediately got us infront. A hack on Thomas got us a free kick just outside of the area, but Victor sent the kick narrowly past the post.

Paul Scharner made his return to Latics and proved to all that he is no midfielder as at every opportunity he was neutralised and was made ineffective, though he did get a good send off when substituted.

Not long after though was the breakthrough that we craved and deserved, Charles N’Zogbia fed Victor Moses who fired in an excellent, unstoppable shot to fire Latics into the lead.

We didn’t look back after the goal, it might have taken 70 minutes but we were controlling the match week and except for the Baggies hitting the post in the 95th minute we were under no threat and so ended up good winners on the day.

Only Manchester United next, and maybe another three points.