Wigan Athletic v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Back-to-back league wins for a change. Great stuff. Onwards and upwards.

[Mac]

3 points off 7th place (or a maximum of 5 if teams win their game in hand)

[Somniloquism]

Well three points but we did our best to throw it at the end.

Petrov was a good sub as Makoun had started to disappear and it doesn't surprise me that we had our best play of the game when he came on. But Gabby for Albrighton and Ward for Ash were poor decisions as Downing needed to come off (Gabby was up for it with the goal) and I would have said Heskey to come on to alleviate the pressure as he can hold the ball up.

[Villa'Zawg]

Nathan Baker - Special debut MoM. Never troubled as far as I could tell.

[PhilGibson]

A win is a win, for stages of the game we certainly got our mojo back and some of the passing was excellent, last twenty minutes was hell, but we never ever make it easy for ourselves.

Lets just keep this tide turning what a good couple of weeks.

[Matt C]

Three more big points - let's hope we can start looking upwards rather than over our shoulders now.

[Pete3206]

Relief at the end. It needn't have been like that. We were in control for so long.

I thought our fans were amazing.

[Legion]

Downing really crap.

Someone is really, really going to have to explain this one to me?

At the moment, I'm relying on the match thread. He was crap. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen the highlights.

[bertlambshank]

Downing really crap.

Someone is really, really going to have to explain this one to me?

Wasted far too much tonight, his worst game for a long time.

[mattjpa]

A win is a win, for stages of the game we certainly got our mojo back and some of the passing was excellent, last twenty minutes was hell, but we never ever make it easy for ourselves.

sometimes its just bad luck....their goal was spawny and was bound to give them a lift...

[TonyD]

Downing really crap.

Someone is really, really going to have to explain this one to me?

Doesnt or cant tackle,  shoots when he should have squared the ball, slow....etc

[PaulWinch again]

I thought Makoun did ok, but when he was booked he disappeared a bit. Considering he's only trained with us for maybe 3-4 days not too bad.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Average performance.

Makoun quiet.

Downing poor.

Shit game.

3 points.

Job done.

[ozzjim]

Fair play, good result in the circumstances. Bent is always in there looking for a chance and if Downing had woken up at any point during the evening it might have been a cricket score. Ashley was excelletn second half, as was Gabby once he got his confidence up. Defense good, Collins very unlucky.

Thought Reo Coker was very good until he tired about 15 mins from the end, and Makoun looked like he can play, just needs some games to get the pace right.

Great result, good things and bad, but we won it, only a lucky deflection made it nervy. Still want a midfielder and a left back, and yes, Adam on the way he played tonight from what I saw would be the ideal man in there.

[pr_N'villa]

Well three points but we did our best to throw it at the end.

Petrov was a good sub as Makoun had started to disappear and it doesn't surprise me that we had our best play of the game when he came on. But Gabby for Albrighton and WARD for Ash were poor decisions as Downing needed to come off (Gabby was up for it with the goal) and I would have said Heskey to come on to alleviate the pressure as he can hold the ball up.

i think you mean herd!