Wigan Athletic 1-0 Port Vale: result and report

League One · Saturday 18 October 2025

Result

Wigan Athletic 1-0 Port Vale

League One · Saturday 18 October 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Wigan Athletic 1-0 Port Vale: match report

Wigan Athletic won against Port Vale 1-0 in the League One on Saturday 18 October 2025. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Maleace Asamoah of Wigan Athletic in the 56th minute.

Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Port Vale received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 17th on 13 points from 12 and Port Vale 15th on 13 points from 12. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Port Vale 22nd with 42.

Wigan Athletic lined up in a 3-1-4-2 and Port Vale in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Will Aimson of Wigan Athletic (7.4), ahead of Fraser Murray (7.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Wigan Athletic wins, 1 draw and 1 for Port Vale.

Going into the match Wigan Athletic's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Port Vale's D-D-W-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Yellow card · George ByersPort Vale
  • 20'Yellow card · Ronan CurtisPort Vale
  • 44'Red card · Dara CostelloeWigan Athletic
  • 56'Goal · Maleace AsamoahWigan Athletic · 1-0
  • 82'Yellow card · Fraser MurrayWigan Athletic

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Wigan Athletic 0, draws 1, Port Vale 1.

Team news

Wigan Athletic line-up (3-1-4-2)

Sam Tickle, Will Aimson, Jason Kerr, Morgan Fox, Matthew Smith, Fraser Murray, Oliver Cooper, Callum Wright, Joseph Hungbo, Christian Saydee, Dara Costelloe

Port Vale line-up (3-5-2)

Joe Gauci, Jesse Debrah, Ben Heneghan, Connor Hall, Kyle John, George Hall, Ben Garrity, George Byers, Ronan Curtis, Dajaune Brown, Devante Cole