Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Wigan: Massimo Luongo nets Owls winner
Sheff Wed vs Wigan
Sky Bet Chship
3:00pm Saturday October
Hillsborough
(Att: 22753)
Sheffield Wednesdays Massimo Luongo declared his first league start for the club with the goal in a 1-0 victory at home.
The Australia worldwide, who joined from QPR for a 1m fee at the beginning of the year, was contained after creating a number of appearances as a replacement.
Luongo place an effort into the side-netting and Steven Fletcher also taken wide.
Wigan had a fantastic opportunity to score with a quarter of an hour after Josh Windass broke free and progressed into the left-hand side of the region. Windass squared to Gavin Massey, whose Keiren Westwood and Jamal Lowe rescued poor effort, after up, also found his shot blocked until Massey terminated wide.
Following fulfilling a Kadeem Harris cross at the far 19, fletcher failed to make proper contact the volley.
In the latter phases of this half of the the angle of post and bar struck at with a fine strike.
Soon after the restart, the Wigans Charlie Mulgrew swung.
The breakthrough target came soon before the hour-mark. A Harris cross posed problems for the defence and Adam Reach pulled the ball back into Luongo, who found the net with a shot from inside the area.
Bannan floated the ball just wide as Wednesday travelled in search of a objective.
Wigan replacement Kieffer Moore went close to equalising a couple of minutes after his header was tipped onto the bar by Westwood after a Mulgrew free-kick. It was a fine save from the Wednesdaykeeper, that was mostly untested throughout the match.
The hosts had the ball in the net for another period when Fletcher struck on the target, but an offside flag cut off their parties short.
Wigan boss Paul Cook sent on Anthony Pilkington and Joe Gelhardt to attempt to spark a resurrection but, apart from the attempt of Moore, the visitors never threatened to get back to level terms.
The result usually means that the wretched away form of Wigan proceeds, winning just once in their last 28 games on the road.
Wednesday variant under Garry Monk goes , placing them.
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