Tottenham Hotspur 3 v 1 Wigan Athletic
26th November 2006
Wigan Athletic's management, team and fans can have no qualms about this result. Latics, for the second half in particular, were made to look very ordinary indeed by a confident Spurs team for whom everything seemed to gel on the day.
Following on from their European exploits, Tottenham's strike force took their chances clinically, whilst the Blues are still struggling to put their chances away. Things looked rosy for Latics when Henri Canara scored a beautiful goal in the 25th minute when Lee McCulloch beat former Latic, Pascal Chimbonda, to the ball and headed into the path of the oncoming Canara who struck a beautiful half volley into the roof of the Tottenham net.
And from then on, things went downhill for Latics. For the vast majoprity of this season Latics have conceded goals at crucial periods in their games, most notably the closing minutes of each half. And yesterday at White Hart Lane was no exception. Just a minute after Camara had struck his seventeenth goal for the club, Chris Kirkland had to make a superb double save from Steed Malbranque and Jermaine Defoe to keep Spurs at bay, but in the 43rd minute there was little he could do when the electrifying Dimita Berbatov, a 10.9 million pounds signing from Bayer Leverkusen, fooled Emmerson Boyce in the Latics defence and crossed to Defoe and the England hot shot fired the ball into the net to equalise.
Latics then crumbled. Within a minute Berbatov himself scored a spectacular goal after turning Matt Jackson inside out and then blasting the ball into the right side of the net to put the rampant Spurs into a lead that they were never going to relinquish given the poor display that Latics put in for the second period of the game.
The only surprise of the day was that it took Tottenham until the last minute of the game to secure a third goal. This came courtesy of Aaron Lennon's fine shot following good work from Berbatov.
The result meant that Latics finished the day in eleventh place in the Premiership on 18 points and next up for Latics are Liverpool at the JJB Stadium next weekend. If Latics are to continue to push for a respectable finish to this league campaign a good result against the Merseysiders is essential. Given the fact that Latics have never beaten one of the big clubs in a Premiership fixture, next week would be a nice one in which to break that unwanted duck.
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR, Paul Robinson, Pascal Chimbonda, Michael Dawson, Ledley King, Bennoit Assou-Ekotto, Aaron Lennon, Tom Huddlestone, Didier Zokora, Steed Malbranque, Dimitar Berbatov, Jermaine Defoe, (Robbie Keane 83). Subs not used, Radek Cerny, Young-Pyo Lee, Edgar Davids, Danny Murphy.
Goal scorers, Jermaine Defoe 43 mins, Dimitar Berbatove 44 mins, Aaron Lennon 90 mins
Booked, Michale Dawson, Didier Zokora
WIGAN ATHLETIC, Chris Kirkland, Emmerson Boyce, David Wright, (Fitz Hall 67), Matt Jackson, Leighton Baines, Gary Teale, (Emile Heskey 29), Paul Scharner, Josip Skoko, Kevin Kilbane, (David Cotterill 78), Lee McCulloch, Henri Camara. Subs not used, Mike Pollitt, Denny Landzaat.
Goal scorer, Henri Camara 25 mins
Booked, Leighton Baines, Emmerson Boyce, Josip Skoko
Referee, Mark Clattenburg (Tyne and Wear)
Attendance, 35.205
Wigan Athletic's management, team and fans can have no qualms about this result. Latics, for the second half in particular, were made to look very ordinary indeed by a confident Spurs team for whom everything seemed to gel on the day.
Following on from their European exploits, Tottenham's strike force took their chances clinically, whilst the Blues are still struggling to put their chances away. Things looked rosy for Latics when Henri Canara scored a beautiful goal in the 25th minute when Lee McCulloch beat former Latic, Pascal Chimbonda, to the ball and headed into the path of the oncoming Canara who struck a beautiful half volley into the roof of the Tottenham net.
And from then on, things went downhill for Latics. For the vast majoprity of this season Latics have conceded goals at crucial periods in their games, most notably the closing minutes of each half. And yesterday at White Hart Lane was no exception. Just a minute after Camara had struck his seventeenth goal for the club, Chris Kirkland had to make a superb double save from Steed Malbranque and Jermaine Defoe to keep Spurs at bay, but in the 43rd minute there was little he could do when the electrifying Dimita Berbatov, a 10.9 million pounds signing from Bayer Leverkusen, fooled Emmerson Boyce in the Latics defence and crossed to Defoe and the England hot shot fired the ball into the net to equalise.
Latics then crumbled. Within a minute Berbatov himself scored a spectacular goal after turning Matt Jackson inside out and then blasting the ball into the right side of the net to put the rampant Spurs into a lead that they were never going to relinquish given the poor display that Latics put in for the second period of the game.
The only surprise of the day was that it took Tottenham until the last minute of the game to secure a third goal. This came courtesy of Aaron Lennon's fine shot following good work from Berbatov.
The result meant that Latics finished the day in eleventh place in the Premiership on 18 points and next up for Latics are Liverpool at the JJB Stadium next weekend. If Latics are to continue to push for a respectable finish to this league campaign a good result against the Merseysiders is essential. Given the fact that Latics have never beaten one of the big clubs in a Premiership fixture, next week would be a nice one in which to break that unwanted duck.
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR, Paul Robinson, Pascal Chimbonda, Michael Dawson, Ledley King, Bennoit Assou-Ekotto, Aaron Lennon, Tom Huddlestone, Didier Zokora, Steed Malbranque, Dimitar Berbatov, Jermaine Defoe, (Robbie Keane 83). Subs not used, Radek Cerny, Young-Pyo Lee, Edgar Davids, Danny Murphy.
Goal scorers, Jermaine Defoe 43 mins, Dimitar Berbatove 44 mins, Aaron Lennon 90 mins
Booked, Michale Dawson, Didier Zokora
WIGAN ATHLETIC, Chris Kirkland, Emmerson Boyce, David Wright, (Fitz Hall 67), Matt Jackson, Leighton Baines, Gary Teale, (Emile Heskey 29), Paul Scharner, Josip Skoko, Kevin Kilbane, (David Cotterill 78), Lee McCulloch, Henri Camara. Subs not used, Mike Pollitt, Denny Landzaat.
Goal scorer, Henri Camara 25 mins
Booked, Leighton Baines, Emmerson Boyce, Josip Skoko
Referee, Mark Clattenburg (Tyne and Wear)
Attendance, 35.205
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