Wigan Athletic v Tottenham Hotspur
Sunday 21st February 2010, Kick Off 4.15pm
DW Stadium, Wigan
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Roberto Martinez's Spurs preview. [watch]
Wigan v Bolton highlights. [watch]
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Preview
Wigan Athletic welcome Harry Redknapp's Tottenham side to the DW Stadium looking to finally put to bed the result at White Hart Lane back in November. It remains to be seen whether the best tool to do that would be to use it to remind the players what that kind of defeat feels like or to convince them to put it out of their minds. Either way, Roberto Martinez's team responded immediately by beating Sunderland 1-0 at the DW Stadium and now look a different team.
Spurs arrive at the DW Stadium on the back for a Premier League defeat at Molinuex, as well as being half way through an FA Cup tie with Bolton. Since beating Wigan back in November, Spurs form has been indifferent.
Team News
Marcelo Moreno started his first game against Bolton and one can see no reason why he shouldn't start again on Sunday. Victor Moses was again used as a substitute on Wednesday and will be doing everything to state his case for a place in the starting eleven. The manager's only new injury worry is Titus Bramble who came off against Bolton with a tight hamstring, he may not recover sufficiently to figure in Sunday's game. The manager will then, have to choose whether to include Emmerson Boyce in the back four or continue as they finished against Bolton with Paul Scharner dropping back into the defence.
Tottenham remain without winger Aaron Lennon, but manager Harry Redknapp announced this week that his groin injury does not require surgery.
Ledley King may be saved for the FA Cup replay with Bolton on Wednesday and Jermaine Jenas faces a late test.
The Manager
Roberto Martinez says that despite the pain, his side got the defeat at White Hart lane out of their system a long time ago.
"The last game against Tottenham resulted in a difficult time for the club after what was a freak result," said Martinez.
"But the humiliation of any experience like that is not being able to react, and I'm extremely proud in the way we responded by beating Sunderland the following week.
"Together we showed the best side of Wigan Athletic and the whole episode made us a stronger football club and a stronger squad. So in a way the event helped us to mature and separate the men from the boys.
"The quality Spurs have in their ranks is very clear. They have world-class players so you can't single out any one player to be aware of.
"Their squad is good enough to go anywhere and be competitive so we know it'll be a tough game, but at home with the support of our fans we need to take the initiative, be brave and fight for the three points."
Head to Head
| |
Wigan Wins |
Draws |
Spurs Wins |
| League |
1 |
4 |
4 |
| FA Cup |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Total |
1 |
4 |
5 |
Latics only win in the Barclays Premier League was when Maynor Figueroa headed an injury time winner to earn Latics a 1-0 win at thw DW Stadium.
Last Five Results
22/11/09 - Premier League - Spurs 9 Latics 1
11/01/09 - Premier League - Latics 1 Spurs 0
02/01/09 - FA Cup - Spurs 3 Latics 1
19/04/08 - Premier League - Latics 1 Spurs 1
11/11/07 - Premier League - Spurs 4 Latics 0
Leading Scorers
Wigan: Hugo Rodallega 7 (7 League)
Spurs: Jermaine Defoe 21 (15 League)
Last Line Ups
Wigan (v Bolton (H) D0-0): Kirkland, Bramble (Scotland, 51), Caldwell, Scharner, Melchiot, Figueroa, N'Zogbia, Diame, McCarthy, Rodallega, Moreno (Moses, 80)
Subs not used: Sinclair, Boyce, Stojkovic, Gomez, Thomas.
Spurs (v Wolves (A) L1-0): Gomes, Dawson, Bale, Kaboul, Bassong, Jenas(Palacios, 45), Huddlestone, Bentley, Kranjcar (Modric, 72), Gudjohnsen (Crouch, 63), Defoe.
Subs not used: Alnwick, Pavlyuchenko, Corluka, Walker.
Officials
Referee: Alan Wiley
Assistants: Mick McDonough & Jeremy Simpson
4th Official: Mark Clattenburg
Next Match
Birmingham City v Wigan Athletic
Barclays Premier League
Saturday 27th February 2010, 3.00pm
St. Andrews, Birmingham
