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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 39 (setup 5, season 17)
Wigan Athletic
v.
Portsmouth
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
Igor AKINFEEV616Erwin MULDER
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Nathan BYRNE62Javier Manquillo Gaitán, JAVI MANQUILLO
Holger BADSTUBER73Emiliano MORETTI
Luka MODRIC84Fernando Rubén GAGO
Reece BURKE57Dedryck BOYATA
Curtis NELSON66Riccardo BROSCO
Eduardo Antonio SALVIO77Patrick ROBERTS
DOUGLAS COSTA de Souza787Jefferson Antonio MONTERO Vite
Mario GOMEZ697Nicklas BENDTNER
Osvaldo 'Nicolás' Fabián GAITÁN10MARCELO de MATTOS Terra
Jürgen LOCADIA11Salomon KALOU
Manager
Nick POWELL12DIOGO Filipe Guerreiro VIANA
Cristopher Benjamín TOSELLI Ríos13Andreas ISAKSSON
Alex GILBEY14Luis PEDRO
Kaiyne WOOLERY15Aaron WILDIG
Byron LAWRENCE16Ashley EASTHAM

Wigan Athletic 1 Portsmouth 2
(Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 24,839, Stadium: DW Stadium, Referee: Andy WOOLMER 7½)
79 Douglas CostaScorers26 Bendtner, 30 Kalou
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings11 Boyata
4Corners2
7Fouls7
1Offsides2
6Shots on4
6Shots off8
12Total shots12
5Shots saved2
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Fernando Rubén GAGO
1SALVIO made space on the right and knocked the ball to GOMEZ who touched the ball wide.
3MULDER saved a beautiful shot from MODRIC.
11A high tackle gets BOYATA a yellow card.
13The bemused Portsmouth 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from BOYATA dropped just over.
15GOMEZ turned MORETTI but placed the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
17MORETTI ran onto a wonderful ball from MARCELO MATTOS but hit his effort wide of the goal.
18A corner found BENDTNER who turned the ball just wide.
19BENDTNER beat three Wigan Athletic players and fired a shot wide.
26GOAL!! With his back to goal BENDTNER swivelled and stabbed the ball past AKINFEEV. (1-0 Portsmouth)
30GOAL!! As MODRIC was trying to hold back ROBERTS the ball dropped to KALOU who tapped the ball into the net. (2-0 Portsmouth)
32GOMEZ drove a right foot shot over from thirty yards out.
34DOUGLAS COSTA headed over.
38ROBERTS was put clear by BROSCO and he raced past the 'keeper but glanced his shot over.
40MODRIC worked the ball to GAITÁN, DOUGLAS COSTA gathered his cross and nodded the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
 
50BOYATA rifled an easy chance past the near post.
53AKINFEEV was able to claw away a poor shot from MONTERO.
56A weak shot from GOMEZ trickled agonisingly wide.
60A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming MULDER.
65An exceptional effort from LOCADIA scraped the top of the crossbar.
69A shot from DOUGLAS COSTA was smothered by MULDER.
70A penalty box scramble resulted in MARCELO MATTOS knocking the ball wide.
74The Wigan Athletic 'keeper dived to his right to save an accurate drive from Portsmouth's MONTERO.
76BOYATA booted the ball wide from just outside the area.
79GOAL!! A short goal-kick was intercepted by LOCADIA who setup DOUGLAS COSTA with an easy chance. (2-1 Portsmouth)
84MONTERO dribbled round BADSTUBER and stroked a poor shot over.