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Wigan Athletic Vs Doncaster Rovers
Date: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Venue: The DW Stadium
Referee: Carl Boyeson
Assistant Referees: David Richardson and Ollie Yates
Fourth Official: Jonathon Hunt
Score: 2-2
Wigan Athletic Line Up
01 Scott Carson
03 Stephen Crainey
17 Emmerson Boyce
24 James Perch
25 Leon Barnett
04 James McCarthy
08 Ben Watson (Fortune-46’)
10 Shaun Maloney
07 Chris McCann (Gomez-81’)
11 James McClean (Beausejour-61’)
09 Grant Holt
Substitutes
13 Lee Nicholls
16 James McArthur
14 Jordi Gomez
18 Roger Espinoza
32 Marc-Antoine Fortune
Doncaster Rovers Line Up
01 Ross Turnbull
03 James Husband
05 Rob Jones
32 Reece Wabara (Paynter-90’)
11 David Cotterill
18 Paul Keegan
19 Richard Wellens (Furman-51’)
26 James Coppinger (Quinn-77’)
09 Chris Brown
22 Theo Robinson
Substitutes
13 Jon Maxted
02 Paul Quinn
12 Luke McCullough
04 Dean Furman
06 David Syers
07 Mark Duffy
08 Billy Paynter
It is going to be a long season for Wigan Athletic if they do not start playing as a team. Although they looked dangerous on the attack, defensively they looked weak and the back four did not gel together as it should have. Wigan should be fairly happy, however, as they managed to carve a draw out of a game they probably should have lost. At half time the score-line was 2-0 to Doncaster and immediately after the break they should have made it 3-0 as Khumalo hit the post from a header. Wigan persisted though and Maloney scored a beautifully placed free kick on 57 minutes. After numerous chances for Doncaster and a lot of time wasting from ‘keeper Ross Turnbull Leon Barnett directed a Fortune cross in to the back of the net to make the score 2-2 on 80 minutes. After the way they played Wigan should be happy with a draw but need to sort the defence out before their next game or there could be trouble.