Wigan Athletic 1-2 Preston North End: result and report

Championship · Saturday 8 February 2020

Result

Wigan Athletic 1-2 Preston North End

Championship · Saturday 8 February 2020, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Wigan Athletic 1-2 Preston North End: match report

Wigan Athletic were beaten by Preston North End 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 8 February 2020. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Tom Barkhuizen opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Wigan Athletic's goal came from Chey Dunkley (57'). Preston North End scored through Tom Barkhuizen (7') and Daniel Johnson (48').

Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card; Preston North End received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 22nd on 29 points from 30 and Preston North End 7th on 47 points from 30. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 13th with 59 points, and Preston North End 9th with 66.

Wigan Athletic lined up in a 5-3-2 and Preston North End in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Daniel Johnson of Preston North End (8.9), ahead of Tom Barkhuizen (8.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Wigan Athletic win, 1 draw and 3 for Preston North End.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Tom BarkhuizenPreston North End · 0-1
  • 48'Goal · Daniel JohnsonPreston North End · 0-2
  • 57'Goal · Chey DunkleyWigan Athletic · 1-2
  • 66'Yellow card · Chey DunkleyWigan Athletic
  • 75'Yellow card · Declan RuddPreston North End
  • 84'Yellow card · Darnell FisherPreston North End
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Jayden StockleyPreston North End

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Wigan Athletic 1, draws 1, Preston North End 3.

Team news

Wigan Athletic line-up (5-3-2)

Txiki Acaz, Nathan Byrne, Cédric Kipré, Chey Dunkley, Kal Naismith, Tom Pearce, Lee Evans, Sam Morsy, Joe Williams, Kieffer Moore, Jamal Lowe

Preston North End line-up (4-2-3-1)

Declan Rudd, Darnell Fisher, Patrick Bauer, Ben Davies, Andrew Hughes, Ben Pearson, Alan Browne, Tom Barkhuizen, Daniel Johnson, Scott Sinclair, Sean Maguire