Source: Team_Talk
Wigan v Bolton reaction
Owen Coyle hailed Bolton's fighting spirit after they bounced back from their worst run in their Premier League history to win 3-1 at Wigan.[LNB] Chris Eagles put the shine on a fine Trotters performance with an injury-time strike after first-half efforts from Nigel Reo-Coker and David Ngog sandwiched a superb Mohamed Diame strike.[LNB]Coyle was particularly pleased with the way his side recovered from conceding Diame's equaliser, plus the blow of a missed penalty from Kevin Davies when the game was still in the balance.[LNB]Coyle said: "The biggest thing today was having conceded the equaliser from a wonder strike it would have been easy for this group to feel sorry for themselves.[LNB]"Then in the second half with the missed penalty you start to wonder if it's going to be our day. But we knuckled down from start to finish and I thought we were magnificent."[LNB]Coyle is adamant the only way is up for his side, with a nightmare series of fixtures in the past and a growing confidence which was restored during the international break.[LNB]Coyle added: "Ordinarily during an international break you would give the players some days off but we had only four or five away and we came in every day.[LNB]"We'd played all the elite clubs together but when you lose games confidence is fragile. We had to try to address it and we got a real feel-good factor.[LNB]"The two weeks were great. We got them working hard and we got a smile back on their faces. I said I wanted them to transmit how they trained into the game today and they did that."[LNB]Wigan boss Roberto Martinez insists there is still enough quality in his squad but bemoaned more silly mistakes after his side's fifth league defeat in a row.[LNB]Martinez said: "I feel really disappointed because we gifted Bolton the three points. The hardest thing is to score goals and we made it very easy for them.[LNB]"Sometimes you get the wrong dynamic and that's where we are the moment. Apart from that I saw my team working very hard and if we had gone in level at half-time we could have won the game.[LNB]"Bolton came here in a physical derby with their physical aspects but they didn't have to show too much flair to score goals. That's disappointing and it's why we lost.[LNB]"It is now a matter of changing the wrong dynamics, keeping a clean sheet and sensing danger. It is not that we are not good enough, it is that we are very poor in our decisions."[LNB]
