Re: Wigan Athletic home match thread
Anyone with pretensions that our current squad are promotion candidates should have been at the Wham today.
Stanley's shortcomings were cruelly exposed by a Wigan team that are undoubtedly heading for higher things.
Wigan were simply superb. Better organised, quicker & more skilful, they could have easily been 4-0 up by half time.
After the riot-act was read at half time, Stanley upped their work rate and clawed one back on 53 minutes, thanks to Michael Nottingham - It says everything about our toothless strikers when our leading goalscorer is a full-back!
The 'Sheriff's' piledriver apart, we huffed & puffed to little effect & within 5 minutes Wigan had scored again.
Just to rub salt in the wound, they delivered the coup-de-grace to put us out of our misery in the dying seconds of extra-time.
Some will moan about missing players or the wrong formation. The truth is that, with very few exceptions, we were poor all over the field.
We were outplayed, out-thought & had no answer to Wigan's dominant game-plan.
On todays performance, mid-table obscurity looks ambitious.
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