Wigan Athletic 1 (Asamoah 29\u2019) 2 Wolves (Edozie 11\u2019, Mane 88\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wolves under-21s were victorious at Wigan Athletic in the Vertu Trophy on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tom Edozie\u2019s early strike gave Wolves an early lead, which was later cancelled out by Maleace Asamoah\u2019s finish. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Mateus Mane\u2019s late penalty was the decisive moment between the two sides.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The young Wolves struck first in the opening minutes, after Mane\u2019s pass provided space for Edozie, the attacker\u2019s powerful finish flashed past Toby Savin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luke Robinson\u2019s header five minutes later briefly had the Wolves defence holding their breath, but the effort was narrowly wide. \u00a0<\/p>\n
But after some pressure from the hosts shortly after, Asamoah slotted his effort past Josh Gracey to get Wigan level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gracey and Saheed Olagunju teamed up in the final moments to provide some brave defending for James Collins\u2019 team before the first half was completed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Half time | Wigan 1-1 Wolves \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Old Gold were forced to be patient from the restart as the Latics used their experience and had lengthy amounts of time in possession.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alfie Pond\u2019s timely block was pivotal to keeping the hosts at bay when he denied Callum McManaman\u2019s attempt on the hour mark.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wolves\u2019 attacking chances were limited, but Ethan Sutherland remained a positive outlet and got into a vast number of promising positions as he looked to create space in the final third.<\/p>\n
After his individual brilliance got him past five Wigan players, Mane was bought down inside the penalty area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wolves\u2019 number 36 stepped up and calmly slotted his penalty kick into the bottom corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Full time | Wigan 1-2 Wolves \u00a0<\/p>\n
Wolves | Gracey, White, Lochhead, Pond, Olagunju, Sutherland, Rawlings, Ojinnaka, Mane, Edozie (Lopes 68\u2019), Holman (Angel 82\u2019).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unused subs | Brooks, Arnold, Ballard-Matthews, Stevens, Williams.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wigan Athletic | Savin, Weir, Rogers (Knott 79\u2018), L.Robinson (Edwards 66\u2019), McManaman (Hughes 74\u2019), Wright (Adams 65\u2019), Brenan, Graham, Miller, Asamoah JR, Bettoni (Gilbertson 78\u2019).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unused subs | Watson, Bolland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Written by Thomas Gibson\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Athletic 1 (Asamoah 29\u2019) 2 Wolves (Edozie 11\u2019, Mane 88\u2019)\u00a0 Wolves under-21s were victorious at Wigan Athletic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-184989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}