{"id":236861,"date":"2026-01-09T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236861\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:26:09","slug":"preston-north-end-0-1-wigan-athletic-league-one-latics-beat-championship-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236861\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston North End 0-1 Wigan Athletic: League One Latics beat Championship opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan, FA Cup winners in 2013, had required penalty shootouts to get past non-league Hemel Hempstead Town and fourth-tier Barrow in the first two rounds but Bettoni&#8217;s winner meant they avoided that eventuality against a North End team 35 places above them in the league pyramid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston boss Paul Heckingbottom made seven changes to the starting XI that beat Bristol City 2-0 on Sunday but his side, FA Cup quarter-finalists last season and currently fourth in the Championship, struggled for attacking rhythm throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milutin Osmajic, Michael Smith and Devine were sent on from the bench before Bettoni&#8217;s goal and the latter forced Tickle into his only two saves of note during the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wigan went close to an opener twice in the first 15 minutes, with Wright guiding Joe Hungbo&#8217;s first-minute cross just past the far post and Dara Costelloe sending his effort wide after being put through on goal by Bettoni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once they had gone in front, substitute Asamoah provided a threat up front and he was denied a goal of his own by Preston goalkeeper Daniel Iversen after his pace had taken him away from the hosts&#8217; defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan, FA Cup winners in 2013, had required penalty shootouts to get past non-league Hemel Hempstead Town and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-236861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}