On one hand, I am happy for Dedryck Boyata and Marcos Lopes, who got starts for City. It was no surprise that Manchester City manager would work in some squad players for a Capital One Cup match, particularly after spilling the team's collective bucket against Manchester United on Sunday.īut this XI Manuel Pellegrini named to take on Wigan.I mean.who are these guys? Left off the team sheet for Wigan, Joe Hart had time to practice his standup comedy routine. It would be great if Coyle left it lie with that hokey poker analogy, but no:Īny game I enter into, I want to win but we're playing against an elite club, not only in English football but in European football, one of the favourites for the Champions League, never mind the Premier League, and we're asked to go there after one day's rest and try and win that cup tie. Coyle, sometimes football managers have to rotate players based on the demands of the schedule and the needs of their players to get adequate recovery time. "If you were going to equate it to poker, we've not been dealt a great hand.But that's been dictated by television and we're not exactly thrilled about it, but we need to get on with it," Coyle said according to Sky Sports. Seems Coyle was a bit chafed about facing Manchester City two days after his side earned a necessary win in the Championship over Ipswich. My seven- and four-year-old children cried less in the past few days than Wigan Athletic manager Owen Coyle did. With his hand in that position, you cannot see Owen Coyle's pacifier. It is horrible, but it is aptly titled, and she is really pretty.
If you want revenge, watch Emily VanCamp's show on ABC. Wigan is in the Championship, City are fresh off a sweet blasting of United in the first derby of the season, and the Capital One Cup is a prize that City will only win by accident. So surely City would be out for blood in this one, right? Wigan earned the victory -they were comprehensively better than City on that day -but they had help from a disinterested and disillusioned City side who wanted their season over and their manager gone. The last two times these sides met, City's petulant millionaires dumped the last few shovels of dirt on the grave of Roberto Mancini, pulling off the rare collective no-show in an FA Cup final.
Alex Livesey/Getty ImagesĪ casual Premier League observer might have circled this third-round Capital One Cup draw between Manchester City and Wigan Athletic as a "revenge game."
The Latics' FA Cup win is a distant memory, at least on the blue side of Manchester. When you just blasted your greatest rival in a derby and your Champions League dreams are vividly alive, a third-round match for the least significant silver at stake in a given season just will not get the big club's best.ĭetails of Manchester City 5-0 Wigan Athletic follow in the next six slides. Pity the organizers of the Capital One Cup, at least as far as City are concerned.
Compare and contrast with the tickets to City/Wigan for this match, where free ticket upgrades were offered. Tickets to the derby were likely only available at an absurd premium. Two days, three hours and 45 minutes before the start of that match, of course, was the start time for Manchester City 4-1 Manchester United, i.e., the derby win that now famously incuded City fans' chants of " there's only one David Moyes." Eastern Daylight Time, i.e., the part of the world I am watching from. Manchester City tipped off their third round Capital One Cup match against Wigan Athletic at Etihad Stadium at 2:45 p.m. What a difference 51 hours and 45 minutes make. By his derby brace, Sergio Aguero earned his day off against Wigan Athletic.