Match Report
35 points separated the sides: Portsmouth 1st on 97, Wigan Athletic 12th on 62. Wigan Athletic ranked 3rd in the league on five-round form, well above their 12th table position. Per game in the league, Portsmouth were scoring 1.7 and conceding 0.89, Wigan Athletic 1.37 and 1.22, against a competition average of 1.29 goals per team per game.
Portsmouth's unbeaten run stood at 15, having scored in 7 consecutive games.
The sides have met 9 times in the GioScore results database: 5 wins for Portsmouth, 2 draws and 2 for Wigan Athletic, at 2.44 goals per meeting.
Fratton Park in Portsmouth staged the fixture, a ground that holds 20,688. D. Whitestone took charge of the match — our records show 100 games refereed with an average of 1.4 yellow cards per game. Wigan Athletic led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 1-2 full-time score.