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OSMAJIC ran onto a delightful ball from FASSNACHT but blasted his shot wide of the righthand post.
GOAL!! A long drive from FASSNACHT deflected off the shins of BAKER and into his own net. (1-0 Rochdale)
The Rochdale 'keeper dived to his right to block a fierce drive from Wigan Athletic's RODWELL-GRANT.
The motionless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from BAKER dropped just over.
14¹A corner found RODWELL-GRANT who flicked an effort inches wide.
17¹BANNIS was put clear by HÉLDER COSTA and he turned the 'keeper but drilled his shot over the bar.
19¹DASILVA flicked a simple chance past the righthand post.
21¹An exceptional effort from DASILVA scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
26¹HUMPHREYS beat a number of Wigan Athletic players and blasted a shot over.
33¹RODWELL-GRANT dribbled away from FASSNACHT and rattled a tame shot into the crowd.
37¹A twenty yard drive from OSMAJIC caused the 'keeper no problem.
40¹Uncertainty in the Wigan Athletic defence enabled DASILVA to fire an effort over.
A shot from BELL was smothered by the 'keeper.
A useful ball from FASSNACHT on the right fell to DASILVA who sliced his effort inches wide.
A penalty box meleé resulted in HÉLDER COSTA tapping a low shot wide.
HÉLDER COSTA fluffed an easy chance.
A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
13²A pin-point pass fell to BELL and his looping shot went narrowly wide.
14²A free-kick from LATIBEAUDIERE went just beyond the far post.
17²HÉLDER COSTA stormed through the Wigan Athletic defence but shot straight at JAKUBECH.
18²A cross from SAKAMOTO left HÉLDER COSTA in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
25²HÉLDER COSTA clipped the ball through a crowd of players but JAKUBECH was a match for it as he dived to his right.
32²BANNIS knocked the ball to HÉLDER COSTA who fired it wide.
34²HÉLDER COSTA drilled a deadly shot inches wide from twenty yards out.
40²A weak strike from DOLAN rolled agonisingly wide.
40²OSMAJIC beat VAN BREDERODE and drilled the ball to BANNIS who toe-poked his shot wide.

 
Rochdale
 
League position: 15
Home league form: LXOW
Overall league form: LLXWOLLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Ethan HORVATH1Adam JAKUBECH(c)
Patrick BURNER2Ezra CARRINGTON
Jay DASILVA3Reece JAMES
Tatsuhiro SAKAMOTO4Tyrhys DOLAN
Joel LATIBEAUDIERE5YASIN Özcan
Bashir HUMPHREYS6Joe WORRALL
Christian FASSNACHT7Lewis BAKER
(c)HÉLDER Wander COSTA8Myron VAN BREDERODE
(p)Milutin OSMAJIC9Will GRIGG(p)
(f)Sam BELL10Ben WOODBURN(f)
Naoufal BANNIS11Joe RODWELL-GRANT
ManagerScott Smillie
RODRIGO Francisco FERNANDES  12  Nahki WELLS
Loris KARIUS  13  Mateusz LIS
Andrew HUGHES14  Luka TOPALOVIC
Dylan LEVITT  15  Peter ETEBO
Yann M'VILA  16Przemyslaw PLACHETA
 
Wigan Athletic
 
League position: 3
Away league form: WXLL
Overall league form: LWWWXLXW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Rochdale 1 Wigan Athletic 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 25,034, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: Lars Gerner 5½)

Baker 3¹ (og)
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
FassnachtóHughes 5²JamesóPlacheta 0²
  
  
93
74
612
61
163
224
41
65%35%
Man of the match: Tatsuhiro Sakamoto