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Wigan Athletic

Middlesbrough

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  1. Aliadiere earns Boro victory

    Aliadiere earns Boro victory

    Middlesbrough beat Wigan 1-0 at the JJB Stadium thanks to a goal from Jeremie Aliadiere two minutes before full-time. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Wigan Athletic
    • Middlesbrough
    • 90' It's all over! Aliadière has snatched all three points for Middlesbrough, and Gareth Southgate punches the air in delight to celebrate his side's first Premier League away win in 2008.
    • 90' We're deep into injury time. The ball's launched into the Boro box. It falls to Valencia - but the winger volleys wide!
    • 90' And Bramble heads the corner wide.
    • 90' Heskey heads a Koumas cross goalwards - but Wheater's there again to deflect the ball wide for a corner.
    • 89' Boro look to have mugged Wigan here! The Latics launch an attack but Scharner wallops a volley over the bar.
    • 88' GOAL!! It's scored by Aliadière for Boro! The former Arsenal player slides the ball into the bottom left corner of the goal after being teed up by a Downing knockdown!
    • 87' Now Camara drags a cross right across the Boro six-yard box, and Grounds puts the ball out for a corner.
    • 86' Oooohhhh...Turnbull just gets top a long ball ahead of Camara on the edge of the Boro area. That would have been a goal is the striker had got there first.
    • 85' Boro have a shout for a penalty as Scharner appears to handle in his own box. Martin Atkinson shakes his head though.
    • 83' Great save by Ross Turnbull! The Boro keeper came off his line to block a Heskey shot from point-blank range after the England man had latched on to a Camara flick in the box.
    • 81' Wigan make another change. Henri Camara comes on for Zaki.
    • 80' Great play by Koumas, who beats four players to weave his way into the area. He curls a shot goalwards - but Turnbull dives low and holds on to the ball.
    • 79' Alves has obviously worn himself out with that attempt at a tackle. He's brought off by Gareth Southgate. Adam Johnson replaces him.
    • 78' Boro head the ball clear from the ensuing free-kick. Was that Wheater again? Probably.
    • 77' Alves has had a rush of blood and actaully tried to make a tackle after finding himself in a defensive position. How did that happen? Anyway, he duly hauls down Heskey to concede a free-kick on the edge of his side's area.
    • 75' Capello's presence must be affecting Downing. He's playing like he usually does for England - very badly. He's just passed the ball to the touchline again.
    • 72' Digard slips Aliadière in on goal with a slide-rule pass - the Frenchman drags his shot just wide. But he was offside anyway. Only just mind.
    • 70' Figueroa whips in a great cross from the clearance which Wheater goes brilliantly to head away. Capello will be impressed with the young centre-back today.
    • 69' Wigan win a free-kick 40 yards out. Sub Koumas dinks it into the box but Boro head clear.
    • 67' Palacios cuts inside Digard on the edge of the Boro box and shoots for goal again. But again it's a comfortable save for Turnbull.
    • 66' What did I say about Kapo being anonymous? Steve Bruce must have noticed too. He brings on Koumas on in Kapo's place.
    • 65' Heskey lays the ball back for Palacios on the edge of the penalty area. The midfielder curls a shot goalwards - but it's tame and falls nicely into Turnbull's gloves.
    • 63' Capello will be keeping an eye on Downing today. The winger doesn't do his case for inclusion in the next England squad - which is due to be announced on Sunday - much good as he passes the ball straight into touch.
    • 61' Heskey and Wheater clash heads as they compete for a high ball on the edge of the Boro box. The striker collapses in agony - but after some treatment he's OK to carry on.
    • 60' Digard doesn't take long to get involved - the Frenchman flies boots first into Chris Kirkland as the pair compete for a loose ball in the Wigan area. Free kick to the home side, but the substitute avoids a booking.
    • 59' Boro make a change: Digard is on for Shawky in midfield. I think the Egyptian was still carrying an injury from that earlier clash with Cattermole.
    • 58' Kapo is needlessly caught offside on the left wing. He's been anonymous today.
    • 57' Well Alves has touched the ball - and Scharner has been booked for a late tackle on the Brazilian as he made a run down the left wing.
    • 53' Zaki picks out Heskey on the right of the Boro box with a beautiful lofted pass. Heskey then cuts inside Grounds - but curls his shot wide.
    • 51' Bad miss by Palacios! A Valencia shot was blocked straight into the path of the midfielder inside the Boro area but he side-footed the ball horribly high over the bar.
    • 48' I'm not sure Afonso Alves has touched the ball yet today. The ball's hoofed up to the Brazilian striker - but he's beaten to the ball by a Wigan defender.
    • 47' Wigan get the ball into the box straight away but it's nothing Boro can't deal with.
    • 46' We're under way again at the JJB.
    • 45' Martin Atkinson brings the first half to end. Despite there no being no goals, it's been an entertaining match so far. Wigan really should have made the most of their early advantage - will that come back to haunt them in the second 45 minutes?
    • 42' The ensuing corner finds Zaki again - who heads over the bar.
    • 41' Heskey and Palacios combine to tee up Zaki on the edge of the box. The Egyptian cuts inside a defender and shoots powerfully for the bottom right-hand corner of Turnbull's goal - but the keeper makes a good save.
    • 37' Now Cattermole is booked for a tackle on Shawky in the middle of the park. The former Boro man did lunge in there, so a booking's probably fair enough.
    • 35' Amr Zaki picks up the first booking of the afternoon. He overhit the ball on the edge of the Boro box and caught his compatriot Shawky's boot as they challenged for the loose ball. That's a harsh yellow card.
    • 32' Boro are right back in this now. Aliadiere forces another corner. But Wigan clear when the ball's swung in.
    • 31' Close for Boro! Mido crosses deep into the Wigan box and Wheater - still up from the corner - heads the ball inches wide of the top left corner of Chris Kirkland's goal.
    • 30' Scharner barges into Riggott as the ball is crossed in from the resulting corner. Is that a penalty? No says the referee.
    • 29' Gary O'Neil hasn't scored for Boro since moving to the Riverside last summer. And that barren run continues as an O'Neil shot from the edge of the box is deflected wide for a Boro corner.
    • 28' Palacios slides a through ball to Heskey to put the England man in on goal. But the flag goes up for offside. Good decision.
    • 27' Wheater beats Heskey to the delivery and clears. Good defending.
    • 26' Kapo shoots from the edge of the box. It's deflected wide off a Boro player for a Wigan corner.
    • 25' Zaki's certainly not afraid to shoot. Palacios slips the ball into the Premier League's top scorer on the right-hand side of the Boro box, and Zaki shoots with his first touch from a tight angle. But it flies high and wide.
    • 24' Boro win a free-kick 30 yards from goal on the right-hand side of the pitch. Downing lines up to take it - and duly curls a shot over the bar.
    • 23' Fabio Capello's at the JJB today. Looking at Heskey no doubt. And maybe Titus Bramble?!
    • 22' Instead of crossing it, Zaki attempts an ambitious shot from way out. But he slices it well wide.
    • 21' Figueroa is fouled about 35 yards from goal on the left. Another chance for Wigan to get the ball in the box from the resulting free-kick.
    • 19' Wigan are still well on top. Zaki works the ball to Valencia on the edge of the Boro area, but the winger blasts a long-range shot over the bar. He scored from that same position against Man City last week.
    • 17' Three Egyptians on the pitch today: Zaki for Wigan, and Mido and Shawky for Boro. That doesn't happen every week.
    • 15' Melchiot makes a marauding run into the Boro box. He falls dramatically under a challenge from Grounds - but the ref turns down appeals for a penalty. Rightly so, too - that looked like a dive.
    • 14' Downing crosses from the left wing. It finds Mido in space ten yards out, but the striker balloons his header over.
    • 13' Wigan win a corner on the right. But the ref blows for a foul as soon as the corner comes into the box.
    • 11' Wigan win another free-kick on the edge of the Boro box. Valencia swings in a cross right-footed and after a scramble in the six-yard box Zaki pokes the ball just wide.
    • 9' Aliadiere makes a great run down the left. He beats Bramble with ease and cuts the ball back from the byeline - but it evades everyone in the box. First glimpse of an opening for the away side.
    • 7' Wigan go close! A Kirkland goal-kick was headed on by Heskey towards Palacios charging into the Boro box on the right side - but the midfielder drags his shot wide of Ross Turnbull's right-hand post.
    • 6' Great start to this match for Wigan.
    • 5' Palacios shows some great ball juggling skills on the edge of the Boro box, but a one-two with Heskey is cut out just in the knick of time by a Boro defender.
    • 3' Wigan win another free-kick 35 yards out - on the left this time. But again Boro deal with the delivery easily enough.
    • 2' Wigan have started brightly. They win a free kick in a crossable area on the right. But Riggott heads clear for Boro.
    • 1' Martin Atkinson is referee today. He blows his whistle to start proceedings as Boro kick-off.
    • - Boro make two changes from the side that lost to West Brom last week - and they're both enforced. Andrew Taylor and Robert Huth are both injured, so Chris Riggott and Jon Grounds - who was recalled from a loan spell at Norwich this week - start at the back.
    • - The teams are out at the JJB. Team news for Wigan first - they make just one change from the side which beat Man City last week; Paul Scharner is in at centre-half in place of Emmerson Boyce. Lee Cattermole has recovered from injury in time to start against his old club Boro for the first time since his summer transfer from the Riverside.
    • - Welcome to LIVE commentary from Wigan v Middlesbrough in the Premier League.

  • Team Stats

    Wigan Athletic Stats Middlesbrough
    60% Possession 40%
    21 Shots 6
    5 Shots on target 1
    0 Saves 2
    8 Corners 2
    12 Fouls 10
    5 Offsides 4
    3 Yellow cards 0
    0 Red cards 0
    21 Tackles 19
    316 Accurate passes 173
    52 Bad passes 37

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Wigan Athletic
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Chris Kirkland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
      7 Paul Scharner 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 27 0 1
      31 Maynor Figueroa 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 28 8 1
      25 Mario Melchiot 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 29 0 2
      19 Titus Bramble 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 20 4 3
      4 Lee Cattermole 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 47 12 4
      5 Wilson Palacios 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 33 8 3
      16 Luis Antonio Valencia 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 45 0 4
      23 Olivier Kapo 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 20 15 1
      9 Emile Heskey 0 3 1 1 2 1 0 30 1 2
      13 Amr Zaki 0 5 1 2 2 1 0 20 4 0
      10 Jason Koumas 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 0
      27 Henri Camara 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0
      8 Kevin Kilbane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      18 Daniel De Ridder 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
      2 Ryan Taylor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Michael Pollitt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Michael Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Middlesbrough
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      21 Ross Turnbull 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 2 0
      5 Chris Riggott 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 14 0 1
      40 Jonathon Grounds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 6 3
      2 Justin Hoyte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 1
      31 David Wheater 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 20 5 3
      4 Gary O'Neil 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 21 4 0
      15 Mohamed Shawky 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 16 1 4
      19 Stewart Downing 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 23 9 0
      12 Afonso Alves 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 9 2 2
      9 Ahmed Hossam Mido 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 16 6 2
      10 Jeremie Aliadiere 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 8 1 1
      22 Bradley Jones 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      36 John Johnson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Marvin Emnes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      42 Tom Craddock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      8 Didier Digard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 2
      41 Josh Walker 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 Adam Johnson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0

  • Summary

    • 90' We're deep into injury time. The ball's launched into the Boro box. It falls to Valencia - but the winger volleys wide!
    • 88' GOAL!! It's scored by Aliadière for Boro! The former Arsenal player slides the ball into the bottom left corner of the goal after being teed up by a Downing knockdown!
    • 83' Great save by Ross Turnbull! The Boro keeper came off his line to block a Heskey shot from point-blank range after the England man had latched on to a Camara flick in the box.
    • 80' Great play by Koumas, who beats four players to weave his way into the area. He curls a shot goalwards - but Turnbull dives low and holds on to the ball.
    • 51' Bad miss by Palacios! A Valencia shot was blocked straight into the path of the midfielder inside the Boro area but he side-footed the ball horribly high over the bar.
    • 41' Heskey and Palacios combine to tee up Zaki on the edge of the box. The Egyptian cuts inside a defender and shoots powerfully for the bottom right-hand corner of Turnbull's goal - but the keeper makes a good save.
    • 31' Close for Boro! Mido crosses deep into the Wigan box and Wheater - still up from the corner - heads the ball inches wide of the top left corner of Chris Kirkland's goal.
    • 11' Wigan win another free-kick on the edge of the Boro box. Valencia swings in a cross right-footed and after a scramble in the six-yard box Zaki pokes the ball just wide.
    • 9' Aliadiere makes a great run down the left. He beats Bramble with ease and cuts the ball back from the byeline - but it evades everyone in the box. First glimpse of an opening for the away side.
    • 7' Wigan go close! A Kirkland goal-kick was headed on by Heskey towards Palacios charging into the Boro box on the right side - but the midfielder drags his shot wide of Ross Turnbull's right-hand post.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Martin Atkinson

  • Wigan Athletic

    Manager: Steve Bruce

    Captain: Mario Melchiot

    Starting line-up

    • C. Kirkland
    • M. Melchiot
    • T. Bramble
    • P. Scharner Yellow Card
    • M. Figueroa
    • A. Valencia
    • L. Cattermole Yellow Card
    • W. Palacios
    • O. Kapo Substitution Out (66′)
    • E. Heskey
    • A. Zaki Yellow Card Substitution Out (81′)

    Subs

    • K. Kilbane
    • M. Brown
    • J. Koumas Substitution In66′
    • H. Camara Substitution In81′
    • R. Taylor
    • M. Pollitt
    • D. De Ridder

    Injured

    • E. Edman

    Suspended

    None

  • Middlesbrough

    Manager: Gareth Southgate

    Captain: Stewart Downing

    Starting line-up

    • R. Turnbull
    • J. Hoyte
    • D. Wheater
    • C. Riggott
    • J. Grounds
    • M. Shawky Substitution Out (59′)
    • G. O'Neil
    • J. Aliadière Goal
    • S. Downing
    • A. Mido
    • A. Alves Substitution Out (79′)

    Subs

    • B. Jones
    • D. Digard Substitution In59′
    • A. Johnson Substitution In79′
    • T. Craddock
    • M. Emnes
    • J. Johnson
    • J. Walker

    Injured

    • J. Arca
    • R. Huth
    • S. Tuncay
    • M. Bates
    • A. Taylor

    Suspended

    • E. Pogatetz