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  • Cotterill (51), Spector (58 og)
  • Date:2006-12-06
  • Kick-off:19:45
  • Venue:Upton Park
  • Attendance:33805
  • Referee:Wiley, A

Live Commentary

90mins

FULL TIME: WEST HAM UNITED 0-2 WIGAN ATHLETIC: The final whistle is meet with a chorus off boo's from the home fans but Wigan will be more than happy, securing a third away win of the season thanks to Cotterill and Spector's deflected own goal.

90mins

Scharner is booked for a mis-timed tackle on Mullins

90mins

Wigan are just toying with the Hammers playing the ball around nicely as the march towards victory

90mins

The fourth official indicates there will be three minutes of added on time

87mins

The West Ham fans are pouring out of Upton Park as Wigan look to close out the match

86mins

Tevez swings in a corner towards the near post where Schaner is waiting and clears well to ease the little pressure West Ham are putting on Wigan

84mins

Camara uses his quick feet to work himself some room to shot but it is a poor effort and doesn't bother Green

82mins

Wright takes a quick corner for Wigan but it ctaches his team mates unaware as Green claims the ball well

80mins

West Ham make their final susbstitution with Bowyer coming on for Etherington

78mins

Cotterill comes off to be replaced by Wigans topscorer Henri Camara

76mins

Harewood tries another shot which seemed to clip the arm of Wright but the Alan Wiley waves away any protests

74mins

West Ham swing in a deep corner but it flies over everyones head and ends up behind the goal

73mins

Skoko comes off to be replaced by Landzaat

72mins

Tevez wins and takes a freekick but Hall gets a head on the ball but it only finds its way to Collins but his effort is poor and goes out of play

68mins

Harewood has a snap shot from twenty yards out but its a tame effort and Hall clears away after the shot hit him

68mins

Ferdinand limps off injured and is replaced by McCartney

67mins

Kilbane beats his man on the left and gets in a good cross for Schaner but its just too high for him and the ball goes out of play

65mins

Konchesky tries a shot from thirty yard out but its a waste as it hits Cotterill and Wigan can launch another attack

64mins

Baines swings in a cross from the left hand side and Schaner head the ball home but is ruled offside

63mins

Sheringham takes the free kick but the 40 year old wastes the chance blazing the ball over the bar

62mins

Cotterill is booked for a deliberate foul on Etherington as the West Ham winger raced away towards goal

59mins

Sheringham comes on for Benayoun as West Ham look to get back in to the game

58mins

WEST HAM UNITED 0-2 WIGAN ATHLETIC (SPECTOR OWN GOAL).

55mins

Harewood out muscles Hall and gets away towards goal but Wright covers well to clear the ball out of play

53mins

Skoko finds himself with space to shoot and doe so but its a scuffed effort which goes well wide of West Ham's goal

52mins

Tevez goes up the other end of the pitch and fires in another shot but this time its straight at Kirkland who gathers the ball well

51mins

WEST HAM UNITED 0-1 WIGAN ATHLETIC (COTTERILL): Cotterill scores his first goal for Wigan and gives them the lead the lead with a great curling shot from inside the area after good work from McCulloch

50mins

Tevez shows some magical skills and getting past the Wigan defence and then crashing the ball off the Wigan goal post with Kirkland beaten

47mins

The free kick is swung in by Tevez and Ferdinand gets his head on the ball but he heads it into the ground and Kirkland gathers with ease

46mins

Scharner pulls back Reo-Coker and West Ham find temselves with a free kick thirty yards out

45mins

The second half gets underway with West Ham looking to carry on the pressure they had at the end of the first half

45mins

HALF TIME: WEST HAM UNITED 0-0 WIGAN ATHLETIC: Alan Wiley brings an end to a competitive half where both teams have struggled to create many chances the best falling to Kilbane who hit the post with a header.

44mins

The corner from Etherington makes its way to the back post where Tevez is waiting but the West ham striker was caught off balance and miss hit the ball wide from four yards

42mins

Etherington gets in a good cross which defelcts of Kilbane and crashes into the Wigan crossbar with Kirkland rooted to the spot

40mins

Etherington gets past wright but its an awful cross which flies into the crowd as the West Ham players wait in the area

39mins

Cotterill riggles free of his marker inside the are and is brought down by Etherington but the referee waves away any protests as play continues

38mins

Kilbane swings in a cross from a free kick and Scharner get his head on the ball but it deflects wide for a Wigan corner

35mins

West ham are knocking the ball around well but just can't find a gap in the tough Wigan defence

32mins

Harewood steals the ball from Boyce and fires in a low cross but there is no one in the Wigan penalty area to apply the finish

31mins

Benayoun has a go from 25 yards but is crowded out by a mass of blue and white shirts

30mins

Harewood has a shot on the turn which has Kirland scrambling across his goal and sees the ball flash past his right hand post

29mins

Cotterill turns his man and tries a shot but its a poor effort which bobbles wide of the goal

27mins

Skoko is booked for a late tackle on Mullins

25mins

Konchesky gets past the Wigan defender who slipped on the wet turf but Benayoun couldn't find the finish with his shot that goes well wide

22mins

Kilbane brings the ball down very well and fires in a shot but Green easily saves the shot which is straight at him

19mins

Etherington floats in a corner towards the six yard box but Hall gets up highest and heads away from danger

18mins

Tevez goes up for the ball with Boyce but the big Wigan defender wins the challenge and clears away

15mins

Scharner makes a great run from inside his own half and tries to set up Heskey but the quality of the ball didn't match the run with the ball flying out of play

12mins

Tevez twists and turns on the edge of the area and get his shot in but it hits a West ham player and Wigan get possesion back

11mins

Hall gets down the right hand side and puts in a cross for Heskey but it fails to find the Wigan striker and goes out of play

9mins

Heskey tries a spectacular effort from the left hand side of the penalty area but he slices his ball horribly wide

8mins

Tevez puts in a deep cross for Harewood but Wright is there to head the ball away from danger

6mins

Harewood has a snap shot from the edge of the penalty are but the ball only manages to find the side netting as West ham create their first chance of the game

5mins

Green recieves a short pass back from Collins and McCulloch charges him down sending the ball just wide on the West Ham goal

2mins

Yossi Benayoun plays in Tevez but the goal less striker is caught just offside by the Wigan defence

1mins

Kilbane takes the resulting corner but it doesn't clear the first man at the near post and its cleared to safety by Spector

0mins

An early scare for West Ham as Skoko wipes in a cross and Kilbane forces Green to make a great save tipping the ball on to his post

0mins

Both teams will be looking for a win after both had dissapointing results this weekend as referee Alan Wiley gets us underway.

0mins

West Ham are still without Gabbidon and Aston and hope to pull themselves away from the drop zone. Wigan are without Taylor, Teale, Valencia and De Zeeuw as they look to bounce back from their four goal drubbing.

0mins

West Ham United XI: Green, Spector, Ferdinand, Collins, Konchesky, Benayoun, Mullins, Reo-Coker, Etherington, Harewood, Tevez. Wigan Athletic: Kirkland, Wright, Boyce, Hall, Baines, Cotterill, Scharner, Skoko, Kilbane, Heskey, McCulloch.

Match Preview

West Ham United will be glad to be back in action at Upton Park after yet another away-day failure at Everton at the weekend.

The Hammers have picked up just one point from eight games on their travels in the Premiership this term, a run of poor form that sees them struggling near the wrong end of the table.

At home, Alan Pardew's side are a tougher proposition, having won four of their seven outings. Three of those four victories have come in their last three home games, as the Irons have seen off Blackburn, Arsenal and Sheffield United.

Pardew commented: "The home game with Wigan is now crucial. Our position says that when we don't get points away from home, there is extra pressure on us and we must deal with that.

"The performance level is very high, but there are no points on the table and that is what matters."

The Hammers boss is still robbed of the services of centre-back Danny Gabbidon due to a hamstring tear, while striker Dean Ashton is still sidelined by a broken ankle.

Wigan travel to the capital looking to make amends for a shocking display at the weekend, when they were swept away by Liverpool at the JJB Stadium.

Boss Paul Jewell said after that stunning 4-0 loss: "What really annoyed me is that Liverpool did not have to work too hard to get their openings. We were flat and they just passed us off the park.

"If we defend like that we won't win any games this season. We were shell-shocked, as every time they attacked they scored."

Veteran defender Arjan de Zeeuw was absent at the weekend with a toe injury, while Ryan Taylor is still on the long-term injury list as he recovers from a broken leg.


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Match Report

New Hammers chairman Eggert Magnusson could have been forgiven for wishing that he had ploughed his £108million into Wigan Athletic after seeing his woeful West Ham slide into the bottom three following their second defeat inside four days.

David Cotterill's opener and Jonathan Spector's, Leighton Baines-induced, own goal gave the Latics a thoroughly deserved victory after both teams had come into this game following Merseyside maulings at the weekend.

Paul Jewell's side - in 13th spot - made two changes from the team that had lost 4-0 at home to Liverpool on Saturday as Cotterill and David Wright came in for Henri Camara and Achilles victim, Matt Jackson.

And even within the opening minute, the visitors were showing that they were clearly intent upon erasing the memory of that Reds' rout, when Josip Skoko's tantalising free-kick was nodded goalwards by the impressive Paul Scharner, only for the extended Robert Green to tip the well-placed header onto his left-hand upright.

Moments later, the fortunate Hammers 'keeper saw his clearance cannon to safety off the inrushing Lee McCulloch and Emile Heskey as they raced onto Hayden Mullins' carelessly under-hit back-pass.

With his side already hovering precariously in 17th place - just one point above the drop zone - it was proving a nervy opening for Alan Pardew, who had also made a couple of switches following Sunday's 2-0 reverse at Everton, with Marlon Harewood and Yossi Benayoun replacing Bobby Zamora and Lee Bowyer.

Although the breaking Harewood stung Chris Kirkland's fingertips with a sizzling 15-yarder, before later volleying inches wide from similar range, West Ham barely got the ball out of their own half during the opening period.

At the other end, Kevin Kilbane tested Green, once more, with a low 18-yarder that the keeper gratefully gathered, while Cotterill fired across the face of goal, Wright hooked over and McCulloch was again denied by the Hammers keeper, who somehow made it to the break with a clean sheet.

A seemingly revitalised Hammers side emerged for the second period and, within five minutes, the luckless Carlos Tevez saw his angled shot tipped onto the right-hand post by Kirkland to the dismay of the Argentinian, who simply cannot buy a goal for all the corned beef in Buenos Aires.

But with the woodwork still shaking, it was to prove the falsest of false dawns for Pardew's men and the turning point of the match.

Within seconds, Wigan's first raid of the second period saw Kilbane's low left-wing cross elude everyone in the danger zone, and when the ball finally arrived at the feet of the unmarked Cotterill at the back of the box, he calmly curled a 15-yarder under Green's right-hand angle.

And just four minutes later, there was to be no way back for the Hammers when Baines charged onto a half-cleared corner and let fly with a 35-yarder that flew back through the pack, before ricocheting off Spector's waist, beyond the wrong-footed Green.

The arrivals of Teddy Sheringham and George McCartney in place of Benayoun and the injured Anton Ferdinand were never going to turn the tide on a night when West Ham were simply swept away and, but for an offside flag, the disappointed Scharner could have heaped yet more misery on woeful West Ham, who now face a daunting and difficult December.

West Ham United

Wigan Athletic

Corners

79

Fouls

1216

Goal attempts

1310

Shots off target

65

Offsides

33

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