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Wigan Athletic Get The Last Laugh

<p><strong>One of the biggest FA Cup upsets ever&quest;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;One of the greatest FA-CUP final ends upsetting the modern times and could possibly be the end game for Roberto Mancini&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Roberto-Martinez&&num;8217&semi;s team had been in superb form throughout the tournament it&&num;8217&semi;s been no smash and grab victory for them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ben-Watson&&num;8217&semi;s winner in the stoppage time takes Wigan to an eccentric victory&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It&&num;8217&semi;s been the first piece of silverware for them in their club history&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;They have beaten one of the most financially-endowed club in the world&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Last Minute Saviour<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Watson had been in the pitch as an 81st minute substitute minutes before Pablo Zabaleta added his name to the tally of footballers who have been red carded in FA-Cup final&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He had been booked earlier for taking down Shaun Maloney in total flight&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Watson proved decisive as Maloney swung a corner and his header from it flashed across Joe Hart creating history&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wigan had played a thronging game&period; Maloney was such a clever and elusive opponent always searching for space and driving the ball forward&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He took the game away from Manchester City in the opening stages&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But he was never alone as Macmanaman and Roger-Espionza the left back form Honduras always tried and broke forward to supplement-the attack&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jordi Gomez even played with greater poise and intelligence on the pitch&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Misshaped City<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;City found it difficult to hold the unorthodox formation of 3-4-1-2 as the team with two centre forwards Arouna Kone and Mcmanaman who started with wider positions but drifted in as the game progressed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Macmanaman had missed a superb early chance form Kone&&num;8217&semi;s thorugh which he should have let fly with his right-foot but ended up with a curling left foot shot wide past harmlessly&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Again&comma; a similar chance was missed by him shooting staright-at-Zabaleta just when Wembley was going to witness a modern day-Ricky -Villa-moment&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wigan had begun the game in such a manner that they could not be bereaved as the virtual no hopers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;City might have threatened some minutes in the first half but they were lucky enough to escape with a 0-0 draw at the interval as their rivals could not finish any of their beautifully build up play&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Its not that Mancini&&num;8217&semi;s were unable to create chances but Wigan&&num;8217&semi;s goalkeeper Joel Robles denied a superb shot of Yaya Toure from Carlos Tevez&&num;8217&semi;s freekick rebound off the wall and also palmed-away a long raging shot from Samir Nasri and a even better save to deny Carlos Tevez before the half hour by jutting out his right foot to fly the ball over the cross bar from David Silva&&num;8217&semi;s cross&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>2nd Half<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;The second half started with a higher tempo with Sergio Aguero trying to squeeze in from a Carlos Tevez&&num;8217&semi;s cross&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Still&comma; there were signs of unusual carelessness from Roberto Mancini&&num;8217&semi;s side with David Silva struggling to show an impact&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sergio Aguero tried diving in to win a penalty of a Paul Scharner&&num;8217&semi;s challenge but failed to draw the refree&&num;8217&semi;s attention&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mancini had brought in another mid fielder in James Rodwell accompanying David Silva for pushing further forward but it had a very tiny effect and it was Martinez&&num;8217&semi;s men who-had-the-last-word&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Mancini&&num;8217&semi;s Future<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Mancini had been rifted apart with the reappointment news of mangerialship behind his back&comma; the new manager from Malaga Manuel Pellegrini has been thought as an option&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The goal by Watson may accelerate this process&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Kev Anders is  a football fanatic living in London and owner of Goals Galore<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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