Ronnie Wanted Moore. (4-3)

Latics: Day, Scott, Wellens, Liddell, Warne, Hall.D, Hughes, Eyres, Branston, Tierney, Porter.

Subs: Beckett, Forbes, Edwards, Hall .C, Smith

First half:

Mark Hughes (3mins) 1-0
David Eyres (25mins) 2-0

Second half:

Scott Brown (49mins) 2-1
Chris Porter (55mins) 3-1
Quinn (78mins) 3-2
Lidell (87mins) 4-2
Scott Murray (90mins) 4-3

It took four games of misfiring, but at last our players find the net. Ronnie Moore said: ‘It could have been six – or even seven. We nearly pressed the self-destruct button once too often and were hanging on by the end. The three points were the most important thing though and we needed them to get back on track.’

Adding:

‘I told the players during the interval that the only way we were going to lose the game was to throw it away. And we nearly did. But at the end I had nothing but praise for the way they went about their jobs.’