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FULL-TIME: WIGAN 2-1 WEST BROM. It's all over here and Boyce is the goalscoring hero. However, Chris Kirkland deserves a mention for three outstanding saves.
A Greening shot goes wide, is that the last chance for West Brom?
Three minutes are to be added on by referee Phil Dowd.
James Morrison is also taken off with Luke Moore replacing him.
Chris Brunt is taken off for Roman Bednar
WIGAN 2-1 WEST BROM: A Koumas corner is met by BOYCE who powerfully heads the ball past Carson, great header. Can Wigan now hold on?
Greening is booked for dissent
Not long to go now, will either team push on for the winner or settle for a point?
Maynor Figueroa is taken off for Kevin Kilbane
Kirkland has been outstanding today and he makes another fantastic save from Greening's shot from the edge of the box.
Corner to West Brom and Kirkland makes a fantastic reaction stop from a Olsson header at point blank range, great save.
It's getting a bit scrappy now as both teams keep giving the ball away cheaply.
Ryan Taylor is taken off for Mario Melchiot . Taylor isn't happy with the decision and storms down the tunnel.
West Brom are begin to claw their way back into the game again as Greening wins a corner off Taylor.
Wigan are taking the game to West Brom now, they look the more likely scorers at the moment.
WIGAN 1-1 WEST BROM: A long ball from Taylor is missed by the entire West Brom defence and CAMARA steals in to prod the ball past Kirkland. Game on now here at the JJB.
The Wigan fans are getting restless. Steve Bruce makes a change, bringing Jason Koumas on for Michael Brown
Bramble gives it away to Brunt but his effort is well saved again by Kirkland. West Brom have grown in confidence since the goal
Another Taylor free kick goes to Carson's left but it flies just wide of the post, great effort.
Morrison finds himself clean through but Kirkland makes a great one-on-one save to keep Wigan in the match.
Miller is booked for his over the top goal celebration
WIGAN 0-1 WEST BROM. Bad mistake by Titus Bramble as he miscontrols the ball and MILLER steals it away from him and fires the ball into the net, another shocker by Bramble.
Phil Dowd gets us underway again at the JJB Stadium.
Half-Time: WIGAN 0-0 WEST BROM.
Heskey nodded it down to Valencia but his shot is well blocked by Robert Koren for a corner which is easily collected by Scott Carson.
West Brom are keeping possession in their own half as the game drifts towards half time. One minute to be added.
Ryan Taylor curls in a free kick around the wall but Scott Carson gets two hands to it and pushes it round the post.
Maynor Figueroa is played in down the flank by Wilson Palacios but his cross is cleared for a corner. A thick fog is now sweeping in from one side of the ground, no threat to the game as yet though.
Chance for West Brom, Abdoulaye Meite rose highest from a Brunt corner but the ball his the side of his head and rebounded back to Brunt, bad miss.
Chance for Wigan as Heskey rises above the defence in the penalty area but he can't direct his header on target.
Miller has an amitious effort with his left foot but again it goes well over, Wigan have been the better team so far, but the Baggies are slowly working their way into the game
Camara gives away possession to Chris Brunt who plays it forward to Greening, but his shot is well over. West Brom are growing in confidence.
After the early flurry of chances the game has slowed down a bit, West Brom are trying to pass the ball but with little end product so far
Its West Brom's turn to come forward but Jonathan Greening's cross is well cleared by Emmerson Boyce, top defending.
It's all Wigan at the moment, Camara breaks free in the area again but his goalbound shot is blocked by a West Brom defender.
Ryan Taylor takes a free kick 30 yards out for Wigan but it sails over the bar.
Great chance for Wigan, Titus Bramble flicked on a nearpost corner to Henri Camara who was unmarked at the far post but he put the ball from 3 yards out, bad miss.
West brom have started brightly, a great run into the area by James Morrison but his cross just evaded Ishmael Miller at the Far post
We are underway at the JJB
West Brom make one change form the team that lost at Stoke. James Morrison returns in place of Kim Do-Heon as the Baggies look to try and climb off the bottom of the Premier League
Henri Camara, who scored the winner against Everton on Monday, returns to the starting line up and partners Emeile Heskey up front, Emmerson Boyce also returns after a one match ban
Wigan Athletic, who are free of the relegation zone after Monday's 1-0 win over Everton, host rock-bottom West Bromwich Albion this Saturday. The three points picked up against the Toffees provided double delight for the Latics as it secured a first home win since September and a first goal at the JJB Stadium for over six hours. Even their goal hero, Senegalese forward Henri Camara, broke his unwanted record of 28 Premier League games - almost two years - without netting. Yet Latics boss Steve Bruce refused to get overexcited, labelling the performance as: "Arguably one of our worst," before adding: "We have played better and lost. "We could have kept the ball better in the last 20 minutes but, the way the league is, we're just delighted to get the three points. "It is horrible to play on a Monday night when you have slipped into the bottom three without kicking a ball. Hopefully we're out of the bottom three now for six months or so." The 1-0 result means that Wigan are now unbeaten in three league games, a string of fixtures that have been played without a handful of key players. Top-scorer Amr Zaki last played when Athletic last lost, against Arsenal in the Carling Cup on November 11, but is still not deemed fit enough to return from a calf muscle problem. Emmerson Boyce will be back from suspension should Bruce which to change a solid-looking defence, while Emile Heskey still has a sore calf despite playing 90 minutes against Everton. West Brom will have fewer reasons for optimism, having not only lost six of their last seven games, but also picked up zero points from two games played against their fellow Premier League newcomers, Stoke and Hull City. Last weekend's 1-0 defeat at Stoke was particularly galling for Baggies fans, whose emotions were aptly summed up by manager Tony Mowbray who said: "We need to start turning some of these narrow defeats into points."
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After waiting almost two years to end his Premier League scoring drought Henri Camara grabbed his second goal of the week, before a late Emmerson Boyce header gave Wigan their first back-to-back wins under Steve Bruce. But Chris Kirkland was the other Latics hero, winning the battle of the England goalkeepers with a string of quality second-half saves after Ishmael Miller gave Albion the lead after a mistake by Titus Bramble. A Ryan Taylor corner produced the first real chance of the game when it was flicked on by Emile Heskey and blasted over from inside the six-yard box by Camara. Taylor figured again just missing the target with a trademark free-kick from long range, but Wigan were earlier caught dozing when James Morrison created an opening out of nothing before sliding the pass across the face of goal. To Wigan's relief, Ishmael Miller was unable to reach it. The Baggies were proving dangerous on the break with Jonathan Greening racing 40 yards before hammering over the bar and Chris Brunt suffered a similar fate with a well struck free-kick. Antonio Valencia burst into action on the right, picking out skipper Heskey, but the England striker put the header wide. Dead-ball specialist Taylor went close to breaking the deadlock from free-kick after Abdoulaye Meite handled. He beat the wall but Scott Carson read it perfectly diving to the left to tip it round the post. The Latics were again caught on the counter soon after the re-start and this time they were made to pay when Miller cashed in on a slip by Bramble to rifle the shot past Kirkland. It almost got worse for Wigan when Morrison seized the chance to shoot and Kirkland used his legs to keep it out. Taylor was a whisker away with another free-kick, but Kirkland prevented further damage with another save to deny Brunt. But Wigan levelled it when Camara hit his second of the week stealing in on a back header to beat Carson from close range after Heskey had flicked on a Taylor free-kick. Kirkland did it again saving a powerful header from Jonas Olsson and beating out a piledriver from Greening. Then with time running out a mix-up between Carson and Olsson gifted Wigan a corner and from it Boyce headed in the winner to claim his first Wigan goal.
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