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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 24 (setup 5, season 17)
Wigan Athletic
v.
Cardiff City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Cristopher Benjamín TOSELLI Ríos717VICENTE GUAITA Panadero
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Overall form:
Home form:
Reece BURKE2MÁRIO Figueira FERNANDES
Holger BADSTUBER73Yaroslav RAKITSKYI
Luka MODRIC84Ivan RAKITIC
Sergei IGNASHEVICH857José 'Martín' CÁCERES Silva
Curtis NELSON766Bruno ECUÉLÉ MANGA
Eduardo Antonio SALVIO876Joe RALLS
DOUGLAS COSTA de Souza86José Antonio REYES Calderón
Mario GOMEZ69Tim MATAVZ
Osvaldo 'Nicolás' Fabián GAITÁN610Junior HOILETT
Jürgen LOCADIA11Robbie KEANE
Manager
Nick POWELL12Craig NOONE
Will GRIGG13David CORNELL
Alex GILBEY14Carlton COLE
Kaiyne WOOLERY15Idriss SAADI
Byron LAWRENCE716Stuart O'KEEFE

Wigan Athletic 2 Cardiff City 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 24,886, Stadium: DW Stadium, Referee: Lee MASON 6½)
29 Ignashevich, 85 LocadiaScorers
63 Gomez <=> LawrenceSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
8Corners4
5Fouls10
1Offsides6
5Shots on4
13Shots off6
18Total shots10
3Shots saved4
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Sergei IGNASHEVICH
4HOILETT stabbed an easy chance past the righthand post.
7A tame shot from DOUGLAS COSTA trickled agonisingly wide.
12A pin-point pass bobbled toward MODRIC and his deadly effort raced narrowly wide.
15DOUGLAS COSTA scuffed a simple chance.
25RAKITIC headed the ball wide from just outside the area.
25MODRIC knocked the ball to DOUGLAS COSTA who fired it wide.
26HOILETT headed wide.
28MODRIC ran onto a wonderful ball from GAITÁN but pulled his shot wide.
29GOAL!! A neat one-two left IGNASHEVICH clear and he made no mistake by expertly flicking the ball past the oncoming Cardiff City 'keeper. (1-0 Wigan Athletic)
36A shot from DOUGLAS COSTA held no problem for VICENTE GUAITA.
43MATAVZ's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Wigan Athletic post.
45+1The stunned 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from RAKITIC dropped just wide.
 
54LOCADIA dribbled round RAKITSKYI and stroked a poor shot past the post.
59TOSELLI saved a swerving effort from RAKITIC.
67A wonderful save prevented BADSTUBER from scoring a great goal.
69LOCADIA made space on the left and dragged the ball to MODRIC who clipped the ball wide.
72KEANE's shot was well held by the 'keeper.
78A brilliant shot from RAKITSKYI was dealt with by a good stop from TOSELLI.
85GOAL!! A great solo effort from LOCADIA who beat three defenders before rocketing the ball into the top corner. (2-0 Wigan Athletic)
86A mix up in the Cardiff City defence enabled DOUGLAS COSTA to thump the ball over the bar.
88A good ball from MÁRIO FERNANDES on the right fell to KEANE who mishit his effort over the bar.
89A penalty box meleé resulted in LOCADIA tapping a low shot over.