Wigan Athletic 2-1 Manchester City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 28 September 2008
Result
Wigan Athletic 2-1 Manchester City
Premier League · Sunday 28 September 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Wigan Athletic · Manchester City · Premier League predictions
Wigan Athletic 2-1 Manchester City: match report
Wigan Athletic defeated Manchester City 2-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 28 September 2008. The half-time score was 2-1.
Antonio Valencia opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Wigan Athletic's goals came from Antonio Valencia (16') and Amr Zaki (32'). Manchester City scored through Vincent Kompany (21').
Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 3 yellow cards; Manchester City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 16th on 5 points from 5 and Manchester City 8th on 9 points from 5. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 11th with 45 points, and Manchester City 10th with 50.
Wigan Athletic lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-4-1-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Wigan Athletic wins, 2 draws and 0 for Manchester City.
Going into the match Wigan Athletic's last five read D-D-W-L-L and Manchester City's W-L-W-W-L.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Antonio Valencia
- 21'Goal · Vincent Kompany
- 26'Yellow card · Antonio Valencia
- 32'Yellow card · Vincent Kompany
- 32'Goal · Amr Zaki
- 32'Yellow card · Robinho
- 33'Yellow card · Javier Garrido
- 57'Yellow card · Michael Brown
- 70'Yellow card · Micah Richards
- 71'Yellow card · Mario Melchiot
Head-to-head
Team news
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-4-2)
Antonio Valencia, Emmerson Orlando Boyce, Titus Bramble, Mario Melchiot, Lee Cattermole, Wilson Palacios, Emile Heskey, Amr Zaky, Narcisse-Olivier Kapo Obou, Chris Kirkland, Maynor Alexis Figueroa Róchez
Manchester City expected line-up (4-4-1-1)
Joe Hart, Vedran Ćorluka, Martin Petrov, Michael Johnson, Gelson Fernandes, Benjamin Mwaruwari, Elano, Richard Dunne, Sun Jihai