Burnley 0 - 0 Wigan (FT)


By Turftalker
January 31 2004

Burnley face Wigan at the JJB Stadium. Keep up to date with all the big match events and join us in the chatroom. Neil Wood starts for Alan Moore Read:

Burnley 0 - 0 Wigan (FT)

Team News:

Burnley --> Jensen, Roche, May (c), McGregor, Camara, Little, Chaplow, Grant, Wood, I.Moore, Blake

Subs --> Radchubka, West, Branch, Chadwick, Orr.

Wigan --> Filan, Eaden, Breckin, De Vos, Baines, Teale, Jarret, Bullard, McCulloch, Roberts, Ellington.

Subs --> Walsh, McMillan, Flynn, Jackson, Liddell.

First Half Highlights:

- Burnley make just one change to the side that beat Gillingham. Neil Wood makes his debut coming in for for Alan Moore. Moore is dropped from the whole 16.

- In a pacy first half there are not goals, cards, substitutions, or injuries. Wigan did have the ball in the back of the net off a corner, but Uriah Rennie disallowed it due to an infringement from Jason De Vos.

Second Half Highlights:

- Yellow Card for De Vos, even though it looks as though he pulled back a Burnley attacker. Wood surprisingly takes the free kick ahead of Blake.

- Blake is yellow carded for a stupid kicking the ball away incident. This was after Neil Wood made a promising run.

- David May is booked for trying to stop Wigan from taking an early free kick. Once more Rennie has shown his strict nature, the attack is pushed forward 10 yards.

- Tony Grant is now yellow carded, his 4th yellow of the season.

- Wigan bring Andy Liddell for Lee McCulloch - 69 minutes gone.

- McGregor is book for hacking down Jason Roberts.

- Little is replaced by Bradley Orr for his Burnley debut.

The match finishes 0-0 and Burnley remain unbeaten in 2004 - we stay in 19th.

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