A goal of the Bulgarian Martin Petrov at the beginning of the second part, avoided the defeat of the Manchester City and frustrated the triumph of the Wigan that directs to the Spanish Robert Martinez, in the encounter of the ninth day of English League that returns to dominate Manchester United. In a thick encounter, the City boss Mark Hughes suffered to leave windy the commitment. In fact, it always marched crosscurrent in first half. Although the Wigan only found prize to its dominion in the time of discount of first half, with as much of the French the Charles N'Zogbia, whom the action took advantage of the Colombian Hugo Rodallega.
The team of Robert could not protect its rent Martinez, who removed to the Jordi Spanish Go'mez in second half, when City, without Robinho, obtained the tie by means of Martin Petrov, who made profitable the action of the Argentinean Carlos Tévez. Later the picture took shelter visitor, who half an hour confronted last with a player less by the expulsion of the Argentinean Pablo Zabaleta.
Melchiot: Petrov goal was sucker punch
Mario Melchiot admitted Wigan were left reeling by Martin Petrov's second-half equaliser that secured Manchester City a 1-1 draw.''In the last 10 minutes we gave our best to win the game and we're disappointed we didn't,'' Melchiot told Sky Sports. ''Conceding so early in the second half was like a sucker punch because those first 20 minutes are so important. But we kept going.''Overall we're trying to progress day by day. These are the kind of teams you have to respect. We just have to keep performing like this. When the big boys come we try to play with them. But we need to win the games against the teams around us. We have to focus on those matches more than the ones at the top.''It was Wigan's first Premier League draw of the season but manager Roberto Martinez felt they should have been celebrating a fourth victory.''We were playing against a very talented side and I felt we stopped them from playing,'' he told Sky Sports. ''Going down to 10 men probably gave them a reason to get very solid behind the ball. It was a very entertaining game between two teams who wanted to win.''I felt in every department we deserved to win but I'm very happy with the performance. We've created a great environment here and that's important. Hopefully we'll fulfil our potential soon.''City boss Mark Hughes refused to condemn referee Alan Wiley for declining to give Shaun Wright-Phillips a penalty after the England winger was felled by Maynor Figueroa.Wiley was branded ''unfit'' by Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson two weeks ago but Hughes had no such complaints, although he claimed a spot-kick should have been awarded.''I thought it was a nailed-on penalty but in fairness to Mr Wiley he was right on the spot and had kept up with play,'' he said. ''He had the opportunity to make a good decision but maybe in his defence he though the defender had knocked the ball into touch when in fact it was Wright-Phillips. It was an obvious penalty but these things happen very fast. I have no criticism of Alan Wiley's athleticism today.''
City maintains the perspective of the high part of the table. It is fifth a five points of his neighbor, the United, that this session has recovered the leadership to the detriment of the Chelsea.
In the other encounter of Sunday, the Blackburn de Míchel Salgado, that remained in the bench, won to the Burnley (3-2). The visitors went ahead with the goal of Robbie Blake to the five minutes, but Davuid Dunn, the Frank Argentinean I gave Santo and the French Pascal Chimbonda gave the return to the situation in first half. In the final section, Chris Eagles shortened distances.
