Wigan Athletic 0-4 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2011
Result
Wigan Athletic 0-4 Arsenal
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-2
Wigan Athletic 0-4 Arsenal: match report
Wigan Athletic were beaten by Arsenal 0-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 December 2011. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Mikel Arteta opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Wigan Athletic did not score. Arsenal scored through Mikel Arteta (28'), Thomas Vermaelen (29'), Gervinho (61') and Robin van Persie (78').
Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 3 yellow cards; Arsenal received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 19th on 9 points from 13 and Arsenal 7th on 23 points from 13. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 15th with 43 points, and Arsenal 3rd with 70.
Wigan Athletic lined up in a 4-5-1 and Arsenal in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Wigan Athletic win, 2 draws and 7 for Arsenal.
Going into the match Wigan Athletic's last five read W-D-L-L-L and Arsenal's D-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 28'Goal · Mikel Arteta
- 29'Goal · Thomas Vermaelen
- 52'Yellow card · Gary Caldwell
- 57'Yellow card · A. Song
- 61'Goal · Gervinho
- 73'Yellow card · Lohoré Gohouri
- 78'Goal · Robin van Persie
- 85'Yellow card · Francis Coquelin
- 88'Yellow card · Mohamed Diamé
Head-to-head
Team news
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Wigan Athletic line-up (4-5-1)
Ali Al-Habsi, Lohoré Gohouri, Ronnie Stam, James McCarthy, Victor Moses, Jordi Gómez, Mohamed Diamé, Conor Sammon, G. Caldwell, David Jones, Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez
Arsenal expected line-up (4-3-3)
Wojciech Szczesny, Bacary Sagna, Laurent Koscielny, Alex Song, Aaron Ramsey, Samir Nasri, Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott, Andrey Arshavin, Thomas Vermaelen, J. Wilshere