Martinez hails Latics' mentality

26 September 2009 19:12
Wigan boss Roberto Martinez has hailed his side's performance and believes his side are really beginning to gel. Wigan shocked title challengers Chelsea with a 3-1 win after the Blues had keeper Petr Cech sent off early in the second half. Regardless of the red card, Wigan put in a fine performance as they bossed Chelsea from start to finish with goals from Titus Bramble, Hugo Rodallega and Paul Scharner. Martinez took over Wigan after Steve Bruce left for Sunderland in the summer and has enjoyed mixed success so far as his side have struggled with his free-flowing brand of football. However, the win is now their third of the season and is surely their most impressive despite an opening day win at Aston Villa and Martinez is delighted with how they are progressing. "It's been a learning process," he told Sky Sports. "Game by game you can see many aspects and many concepts that they are coming together. Deserved "What they showed today (Saturday) is that they are hungry for success, they are ready to work really hard for each other. That's what they want to do and they deserved that sort of performance. "It's a key moment for our history. The fans deserve this moment, they push us and they support us throughout. "I think the understanding and the concentration levels were fantastic. It's not that we had one or two key moments in the game - I felt that from the first minute we showed a great determination to win the game and we fully deserved that. "There are reasons why we won and we have to make sure we understand them and carry on using them. "We were getting into great positions time after time in the last third. "Many times we had one-on-one situations and two-on-two situations and that's very hard to find against a very good Chelsea side. "But all in all I would say the key moment was that when Chelsea scored our concentration levels never changed. "In the past we have had problems with our belief in carrying on doing exactly the same when we go a goal behind or we had a disappointment. "I think that was key in our performance."

Source: SKY_Sports