Norwich City 2-1 Wigan Athletic: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 13 September 2016
Result
Norwich City 2-1 Wigan Athletic
Championship · Tuesday 13 September 2016, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Norwich City 2-1 Wigan Athletic: match report
Norwich City defeated Wigan Athletic 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 13 September 2016. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Jacob Murphy opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Norwich City's goals came from Jacob Murphy (3') and Jacob Murphy (11'). Wigan Athletic scored through Jordi Gómez (72').
Discipline: Norwich City received 2 yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Norwich City were 5th on 11 points from 6 and Wigan Athletic 21st on 4 points from 6. Norwich City went on to finish that season 8th with 70 points, and Wigan Athletic 23rd with 42.
Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jacob Murphy of Norwich City (8.7), ahead of Y. Wildschut (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Norwich City win, 3 draws and 2 for Wigan Athletic.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Jacob Murphy
- 11'Goal · Jacob Murphy
- 17'Yellow card · S. MacDonald
- 27'Yellow card · Alex Gilbey
- 55'Yellow card · Max Power
- 63'Yellow card · Jonathan Howson
- 72'Goal · Jordi Gómez
- 77'Yellow card · Russell Martin
Head-to-head
Team news
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Michael McGovern, Ivo Pinto, Russell Martin, Timm Klose, Martin Olsson, Graham Dorrans, Alexander Tettey, Jonathan Howson, Wesley Hoolahan, Jacob Murphy, Cameron Jerome
Wigan Athletic line-up (4-5-1)
Ádám Bogdán, Reece Burke, Jake Buxton, Dan Burn, Stephen Warnock, Alex Gilbey, Shaun MacDonald, Jordi Gómez, Max Power, Michael Jacobs, Will Grigg