Barnsley 0-4 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Championship · Saturday 3 August 2013
Result
Barnsley 0-4 Wigan Athletic
Championship · Saturday 3 August 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Barnsley 0-4 Wigan Athletic: match report
Barnsley lost to Wigan Athletic 0-4 in the Championship on Saturday 3 August 2013. The half-time score was 0-1.
Ben Watson opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Barnsley did not score. Wigan Athletic scored through Ben Watson (37'), Grant Holt (55'), Leon Barnett (80') and Shaun Maloney (88').
Discipline: Barnsley received 1 yellow card and 2 red cards; Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card.
Barnsley went on to finish that season 23rd with 39 points, and Wigan Athletic 5th with 74.
Barnsley lined up in a 4-4-2 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Emmerson Orlando Boyce of Wigan Athletic (8.3), level with Ben Watson (8.3).
Key events
- 37'Goal · Ben Watson
- 43'Yellow card · James McCarthy
- 55'Goal · Grant Holt
- 65'Red card · Dale Jennings
- 66'Red card · Dale Jennings
- 74'Yellow card · Martin Cranie
- 80'Goal · Leon Barnett
- 88'Goal · Shaun Maloney
Team news
Barnsley line-up (4-4-2)
Luke Steele, Scott Golbourne, Tom Kennedy, Martin Cranie, S. Wiseman, Jean-Yves M'voto, Stephen Dawson, David Perkins, Jacob Mellis, Chris O'Grady, Chris Dagnall
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-5-1)
Scott Carson, Stephen Crainey, Emmerson Orlando Boyce, James Perch, Leon Barnett, James McCarthy, Ben Watson, Shaun Maloney, James McArthur, Jean Beausejour, Grant Holt