Barton drills the free-kick into the crowd of bodies but his team-mates fail to capitalise on the good delivery.

The fourth official indicates four minutes of added time

The ball falls kindly for Landzaat but his shot is blocked by a City defender.

Aghahowa attacks down the right flank and goes down a little theatrically inside the box looking for a penalty and Howard Webb waves away the protests.

The home fans have seen enough are already beginning to pour out of the stadium

The City fans are showing their frustration as their side fail to deliver the final ball.

Beasley gets to the byline and cuts the ball back for Richards, but the ball had crossed the line and Wigan win a goal-kick

Caleb Folan's goal still separates the two sides as we approach the final fifteen minutes of the game.

Boyce is back on his feet and looks a little groggy, but is deemed fit to continue

Barton's near post cross causes a clash of bodies involving Boyce and Dunne. The Wigan defender has stayed down in a rather awkward position.

McCulloch wins the ball and Weaver is off his line. He passes the ball around him but does not get enough power behind the ball and the keeper is able to get back and dive on the ball.

Good pressure from Man City pays off as they earn themselves a corner. Barton swings it in from the left-side, but Filan collects the ball at the near post.

Wigan give the ball away cheaply on the edge of their own box and Barton tries to punish them with a shot, but does not get hold of it and slices it wide.

Barton whips a corner into the box and Richards gets his head to the ball but cannot direct it goal-wards.

Mpenza has already come close to scoring and the striker has looked lively since taking the field

McCulloch, now positioned up-front, gets a long-range shot away but Weaver easily smothers the ball

Wigan are getting plenty of bodies behind the ball and are doing everything in their might to defend their lead.

Beasley turns Taylor inside out and fires the ball across the face of goal and it takes a deflection off Jackson on the way through, to stop the ball reaching the awaiting Mpenza who looked certain to score.

The second-half looks set to be nothing different to the first as it has started with the same, slow tempo.

City enjoy a decent spell of possession but appear to be lacking the cutting edge in the final third.

City enjoy a decent spell of possession but appear to be lacking the cutting edge in the final third.

The home side are getting a foothold in the game now. Bernardo Corradi finds space for a shot on the edge of the box but he does not trouble John Filan.

Barton curls a corner and picks out Micah Richards whose header is cleared off the line by Emmerson Boyce

Joey Barton puts a telling cross into the mixer and it is asking to be headed home, but the ball manages to evade everyone in the box and Wigan restart with a goal-kick.

Taylor picks out Valencia on the right wing who runs at the defence before putting a low cross into the danger area, but it is a little too far ahead of an outstretched Folan

Folan and Heskey are linking up well today and the goalscorer is looking on top form as the visitors go in search of a second.

McCulloch hits a speculative effort from 25-yards and Weaver gets a vital fingertip to the ball to turn it around the post.

Eastlands is stunned and the home faithful are beginning to get restless as their team have not got out of first gear yet.

With the news of Watford winning at home to Charlton, things are going perfectly for Wigan at the moment.

Michael Ball, who is making his debut, gets to the byline and pulls the ball back for Georgios Samaras, but he cannot find the target

Taylor takes a Latics corner, but fails to beat the first man and City regain possession

The atmosphere is a little subdued and with just over ten minutes played, the game has not got going.

Folan is back on his feet and gets behind the City defence before fizzing the ball across the face of goal. Dunne fails to deal with it and it falls for Lee McCulloch but he smashes the ball over the bar.

Eastlands is a magnificent arena, but Stuart Pearce's side cannot win here at the moment - they have lost four of their last five home matches

Caleb Folan goes down in a heap after an aerial challenge and play stops for the striker to receive treatment.

Wigan break and Antonio Valencia receives the ball from Taylor , but Richard Dunne closes him down well and gets in the way of his shot.

Ryan Taylor, who scored a stunning free-kick against Newcastle last week, whips a cross into the box but Nicky Weaver watches the ball behind.