Clicking, gelling, building

Clicking, gelling, call it what you like but it feels like there’s something special building with this side now.

For the last four matches Wigan Athletic have definitely been the better side, across both halves.

Now that’s been more successful in some matches than others. Bolton was just a gloriously professional performance from minute one.

Shrewsbury should have been the same if not for two inexplicable mistakes from two of the most experienced players on the pitch.

Rotherham was a mix of both Bolton and Shrewsbury.

Like much of the season Latics could and should have been further ahead, but Babba Adeeko’s maiden goal meant that much like Wallace and Gromit the previous evening, Lancashire was to win out.

I don’t think many would have travelled to Wrexham expecting much but once again Shaun Maloney’s side controlled the match. We could and should have been ahead long before Wrexham scored from their only real chance.

For Latics to lose in the manner we did was beyond cruel. Latics showed in that match that they can mix it with the top of the division and that’s with an ever burgeoning injury list.

Baba Adeeko joined Matt Smith in the treatment room meaning that the well stocked engine room is now down to the proverbial bare bones. But a word to both Scott Smith and Jensen Weir, two talented young lads who have Wigan running through their DNA.

They were excellent against Wrexham and on another day we would be toasting them and a famous win at the Racecourse Ground, as the manager said “we were that good”.

But good performances alone don’t win points, we need to start turning the chances in to goals and the performances in to results. I have no doubt that it will come but the injuries don’t help at all.

The Huddersfield match being postponed was understandable with much of Greater Manchester and large swathes of Wigan underwater. But it’s a shame we were stopped in our tracks when we had performed so well over the last few weeks.

If there is one benefit it gives us a break from a relentless period of matches and means that we should be that bit fresher to face Birmingham on Saturday.

Saturday is going to be as tough as they get, in both Wrexham and Birmingham we’re facing clubs that would make some Premier League teams blush with their level of spending.

But if anyone casts their minds back to St Andrews in late August that was another game like Wrexham where we should have got more than the late defeat we did.

It’s up to the gaffer and these talented young lads to make sure that we start taking those chances.

Sean Livesey

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