RESERVES: LATICS 4 MANCHESTER UTD 5 - Amazing game at Robin Park where Latics lead 4-1 but still end up losing
LATICS 4
Cywka 33,53
Kupisz 45
Holt (pen) 56
MANCHESTER UNITED 5
Welbeck 13, 68
Mancheda 61,66
Martin 80
A quite extraordinary game
at Robin Park Arena in which Keith Bertschin's Latics came from a goal down to lead 4-1 after totally dominating the first hour, then inexplicably crumbled.
PICTURED RIGHT: POLE POSITION - Tomasz Kupisz celebrates after putting Latics ahead (Pic Bernard Platt)
Tomasz Cywka scored a brace and was the best player on the field, with fellow Pole
Tomasz Kupisz and Joe Holt from the spot the other scorers
as Latics magnificently set up a seemingly unassailable lead.
But then total disaster for Bertschin's boys.
United scored three goals in a six minute spell of quite atrocious defending before another error led to the winner by United, who by that time had had double scorer Frederico Mancheda sent off for a straight red card.
Bertschin said: "I was so pleased their heads didn't go down after conceding the early goal and they fought back so well to lead 4-1. Credit United for not giving up at that stage but the really disappointing aspect is that apart from the second goal, it was all silly errors that led to the United goals, totally basic lapses of concentration. I'm still wondering how we lost that match."
Dany Welbeck had put United ahead early on with a neat finish, but then Ben Watson's corner was headed in at the far post by the outstanding Cywka. Latics went in ahead at the break after Tomasz
Kupisz' smart finish in the box, racing on to Craig Mahon's ball to lob United keeper Ben Amos.
Cywka lobbed Amos from close range to convert an
Erik Edman free-kick for number three, before Joe Holt slotted home the penalty having been tripped in the box himself.
POLE DANCING - Celebrations after Tomasz Cyka levels the scoring (Pic Bernard Platt)That was when it all went wrong for Latics, but even then, Edman had a late chance to equalise when Amos spilled a cross, but his effort flew agonisingly wide.
LATICS: Nicholls, Montrose, Field, Pearson, Edman, Mahon (Redmond 83), Routledge, Watson (Mahon 57), Holt, Kupisz, Cywka
Subs not used: Williams, Buxton, McManaman
