Martinez: We deserved to win

Mon, 19 Oct 09:32:16 2009

Wigan boss Roberto Martinez was proud of his side's efforts after they earned a 1-1 draw with Manchester City at the DW Stadium.

Charles N'Zogbia opened the scoring for the Latics on the stroke of half-time, but the visitors equalised almost immediately after the interval through Martin Petrov.

City full-back Pablo Zabaleta was dismissed for a second bookable offence 25 minutes from time, but although Wigan pressed forward they were unable to find a winner.

Despite this, an upbeat Martinez said: "I would say the performance was well worth a victory.

"Manchester City are an outstanding team with a fabulous group of players. Our performance deserved the three points."

 

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  1. I can honestly say I thought we would of got hammered­ what with Hughes massive spending 100 million compared­ to our 10 million squad.
    I watched the first half but­ had to go to work.
    With what I watched Wigan were more­ than a match for city.
    It just goes to show you can­ spend all the money in the world and still not have the­ deserved success for what you have spent.
    You have to­ have a team with passion of which Martinez has.
    The­ result was a good one but now we need to focus on­ Burnley they are a hard team and doing really well up­ to now.

    From anthony m, on Tue 20 Oct 7:17PM
  2. i was well pleased with the way he has got wigan­ playing, nice to watch,some lovely passing moves and­ got right in citys faces.as in the past we have given­ teams to much respect and stood off them giving them­ way to much room to operate .definately as mark hughes­ said wigan will win far more matches at home than they­ will lose,so lets get the away form ticking over as­ well,and who knows how high we can go.good on you­ roberto and all the lads in the team.and all the­ supporters for getting behind them

    From Audrey, on Tue 20 Oct 8:42AM
  3. Good Game Wigan..............! What about extending­ some players contracts before January as Roberto has­ worked hard to get these lads ticking and they need a­ to be settled & consitent , DW must realise this-­ There are premiership teams starting to extend players­ contracts to prevent the january smash and­ grab.................!

    From Sean, on Mon 19 Oct 7:24PM
  4. city were lucky with all their millions they couldn`t­ beat a team who didn`t cost what they paid for their­ diving cheating centre forward, just goes to show you­ can`t buy results, unless your man u and you pay the­ ref

    From wafc4life, on Mon 19 Oct 4:33PM
  5. Good game!

    From Stuart T, on Mon 19 Oct 2:01PM
  6. Wigan perhaps deserved another goal for all their­ attacking play after Zabaleta was sent off but City­ should have had a penalty, so a draw was the correct­ result.

    From youknowtheydidit, on Mon 19 Oct 11:14AM
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