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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 17 (setup 5, season 17)
Wigan Athletic
v.
Burton Albion
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
Igor AKINFEEV1Jamie LANGFIELD
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
18
Overall form:
Home form:
Reece BURKE628Evgeni MAKEEV
Holger BADSTUBER36Kristof D'HAENE
Luka MODRIC748Amir ABRASHI
Sergei IGNASHEVICH5Serigne Modou KARA Mbodj
Curtis NELSON6Timothy DERIJCK
Kaiyne WOOLERY677Christoph MORITZ
DOUGLAS COSTA de Souza8Luke MURPHY
Mario GOMEZ797Marko SCEPOVIC
Osvaldo 'Nicolás' Fabián GAITÁN10Liam BOYCE
Jürgen LOCADIA117Gohi Bi Zoro CYRIAC
Manager
Nathan BYRNE12Jackson IRVINE
Alex GILBEY613Jon McLAUGHLIN
Nick POWELL14Matt PALMER
Will GRIGG15Tomislav BARBARIC
Sam COSGROVE16Tom NAYLOR

Wigan Athletic 2 Burton Albion 1
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 24,957, Stadium: DW Stadium, Referee: Neil SWARBRICK 6½)
26 Gomez, 44 LocadiaScorers10p Scepovic
79 Burke <=> GilbeySubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
5Corners3
8Fouls4
6Offsides4
5Shots on4
13Shots off2
18Total shots6
3Shots saved2
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Amir ABRASHI
7A mix up in the Burton Albion defence enabled DOUGLAS COSTA to volley the ball inches over.
10GOAL!! A foul on CYRIAC inside the area gave Burton Albion a penalty which SCEPOVIC made look easy.
12The bemused Burton Albion 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from DERIJCK dropped just wide.
26GOAL!! A nice run by WOOLERY on the right was capped by a wonderful cross which GOMEZ headed home at the near post. (1-1)
29A great save prevented LOCADIA from scoring a great goal.
35DOUGLAS COSTA flicked a left foot shot wide from long range.
37ABRASHI rifled a simple chance past the near post.
39MURPHY clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Wigan Athletic 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
44GOAL!! On the left wing DOUGLAS COSTA collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the penalty box for LOCADIA to nudge it into the net. (2-1 Wigan Athletic)
45+2A fine ball from MODRIC on the right bobbled toward DOUGLAS COSTA who scuffed his effort just beyond the near post.
 
46LOCADIA beat MORITZ and whacked the ball to GOMEZ who toe-poked his shot wide.
50A refined cross from MURPHY, was blasted goalbound by BOYCE only for AKINFEEV to palm clear.
53GOMEZ headed the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
61A pin-point pass was collected by MODRIC and his left foot shot raced narrowly wide.
64GOMEZ shot wide.
65A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the oncoming 'keeper.
66The Burton Albion 'keeper saved a curling effort from BURKE.
67GAITÁN snapped at an easy chance.
69A great effort from DOUGLAS COSTA scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
74BADSTUBER brought the ball away from ABRASHI and stabbed a poor shot past the post.
76DOUGLAS COSTA headed wide.
77A tame strike from D'HAENE rolled agonisingly wide.
82WOOLERY played the ball to LOCADIA who fired it inches wide.
88A shot from D'HAENE was booted off the line by IGNASHEVICH.