Wigan Athletic.
Crowd. 23,655
Referee - Tony Harrington
Team :-
Carson, Bogle, Keogh, Tomori, Malone.
Huddlestone
Johnson, Wilson
Marriott Waghorn, Josefzoon
Subs :- Wisdom, Cole, Bennett, Nugent, Malone, Bird, Roos
Conditions. Looking great.
Weather, Wet, cold and unpleasant.
7-30 PM 05 03 2019 Shrove Tuesday.
After the wholesale changes to the team v Millwall and the battering we suffered v Villa, will Frank manage to encourage a positive reaction to put the 4-0 defeat behind us. My view - on reflection - is that the trouncing was due to the combined affect of an off-colour Rams and a resurgent Villa due to the return of Jack Grealish. He was certainly influential with passes, as well as scoring with a blinding volley. It’s important to remember we have had a few of those games with the boot on the other foot, when we have annihilated the opposition. eg. Wolves a couple of years ago.
However All’s Well That Ends Well - after a pulsating game of great endeavour from both sides. Derby came out with obvious aggressive intentions and were superior for half an hour. On one of their many raids a shot/centre with Derby attacking in numbers was punched a great distance by their goalie to land at the feet of Jacobs who put the ball into acres of space and start a race between Malone Massey and another Wigan attacker. The other one won and slipped a pass to Massey who slid his shot under the advancing Carson to deliver a huge shock to Derby and over 23,000 fans. It was totally gut-wrenching for all. After the goal Wigan’s confidence - and their time-wasting rose visibly. Derby were still working hard and still aggressive. To not much effect however and they went in 0-1 at H-T.
In the second half Wigan had got their self-belief considerably braced and for half an hour they threatened to add to their lead. Derby also were stiffened and they gradually got back on top. Bennett replaced Jack Marriott and Holmes replaced Josefzoon. Derby launched several attacks until, with his back to goal Bennett hit a bouncing ball over his shoulder in a sublime volley which beautifully lobbed the Wigan goalie. The relief for the team and the crowd was palpable. It felt wrong that an unjust score might result and Derby’s confidence increased though not without some alarms at the other end. With about 10 minutes to go, during mob-handed Derby attack, Bogle fired in a shot/centre which was just going wide until Malone touched it into the net at the far post. Derby happiness was unconstrained whilst they just managed to run down the clock and maintain their lead. Wigan played well and tried hard and were bigger and more physical than The Rams and it was a hard earned 3 points to put us in good shape to beat the Wendies on Saturday. I think if we can get maximum points from the next three home games, we will have earned our place in the play-offs.
Who played well. Everyone really especially Bradley Johnson and Keogh. Malone made quite a few errors but had bags of energy and he did get the winner. Tomori was good but very much over-excited and Keogh should have given him some much needed advice. The ref was average to poor. Josefzoon didn’t offer much. Bennett was influential. Wilson tried but seems to have blunted his shooting boots somewhat. In the dying minutes Nugent came on and hit the post from close range.
For Those Who Could not Attend
posted on 6/3/19
comment by 🏁AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 0 seconds ago
We all will now !
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That was to Baz, btw
posted on 7/3/19
comment by 🏁AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted 12 hours, 58 minutes ago
Mind you, Baz, Nuge does have a very distinctive 'run'
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He's got high frequency legs. Like bees wings.
posted on 7/3/19
They are comparing Bennett's goal to Bale. Would anyone accept £50 million for Mason if Real Madrid came sniffing?
posted on 7/3/19
Frank says he doesn't like the negativity from those close to the club. It's alright for him, he is a new boy, we have seen it all before.
posted on 7/3/19
Yes, but it is very ambiguous - what is/are "those close to the club"?
I think we should be told.
posted on 7/3/19
PLEASE. will someone simply explain what Frank, or some other person has been saying about "those close to the club" - some of us, not being too smart in social media. I would like to know what's going off but don't have time to investigate. It sounds as if a general airing would be good for all of us anyway
posted on 7/3/19
Watching it again, it was truly a wonder goal. If Messi, or Ronaldo had done it it would be world viral. At the game I thought the ball bounced but was actually a volley. It has to be the championship goal of the season TCGOTS. And it lifted us to victory.
posted on 7/3/19
Deffo in my top 3 of all time,I can’t stop watching it.
posted on 7/3/19
Another I love about it, he’s just scored a worldly and two of our players are going flat out to retrieve the ball for a quick restart, gotta love that.
posted on 7/3/19
Igor, Though we didn't play like champions on the night, our attitude was lightyears away from what we had shown in the last 3 or 4 games. We wanted to attack and get forward - no sideways - sideways - back - sideways etc etc.