PREMIER LEAGUE: Wigan frustrate Liverpool to force scoreless draw

Wigan Athletic have denied Liverpool the chance to push firmly into the top-five by holding them to a 0-0 draw at DW Stadium.

The Reds had the perfect chance to go ahead in the 50th minute when they were awarded a penalty for handball when Luis Suarez’s overhead attempt struck the arm of Gary Caldwell. Charlie Adam’s spot-kick was brilliantly saved by a diving Ali Al Habsi, who guessed the right way and forced a strong hand on the Scotland international’s shot to make it four out of five penalty misses for the Merseysiders this term.

Al Habsi first came up trumps in the 25th minute when he kept out Dirk Kuyt’s left footed attempt on the turn before again producing the goods less than a minute later to deny Glen Johnson with his feet after the right-back had made a strong run into the area.

The 37th minute saw promising talent Victor Moses steal the ball deep in his own half before taking it all the way to the edge of the area only to see his swerving shot punched away by Pepe Reina before the former Crystal Palace man was inches away from forcing in a late winner as the Latics remain in the drop zone, however, their past two performances (1-1 draw with Chelsea on the weekend and this) will surely give them great confidence.

TRIBAL ASKS: Can Wigan push out of the drop zone on the back of these two draws and are Liverpool losing their grip on a potential top-four finish?

Wigan Athletic: 0
Liverpool: 0

DW Stadium, Wigan

Yellow cards: WIG - Gary Caldwell 66’
LIV - Glen Johnson 79’, Craig Bellamy 90+1’

 

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Comments (2)

Liverpool is not good enough to be in top 4. The players they bought are at the same level with the players we had, for example Downing (20m) has nothing extra other than being left footed and British player but in reality he is a player like Max or Kuyt nothing more, he played 20 games without a goal, this was a wasting of money.
Another problem is carroll ( 35m) wasting of money also, this is the worst signing and bad sign from daglish and co on transfer market.
Henderson 16m you don't see any qualiy worth that amount. These 3 players make no differences if they play or sitting on the bench , how much we paid ? Does Liverpool has that kind of money for these kind of players?
In reality apart from Suarez the only player who has brought difference in his position is Luis Enrique. This shows that we don't have to force to buy British players coz there are few quality players and they are very very expensive.
I personally doubt daglish ability on transfer market and consistence for the team on the pitch, we had this problems during Houlier , Benitez and hudgson. I did think that daglish willl correct all these 2 major problems but it's disappointing as he paid over the odd for the second best players and the way the team play is not encouraging. One game playing good and the next game playing bad with alot of excuses and encouraging statement.
My view daglish is a transition manager we don't need to give him final say on the transfer market, commoli is good he should handle this.
Mr. Henry & co should start searching for the long term manager for the next season or bring back Benitez with Commoli handling transfer market. YNWA