Wigan Athletic v Charlton Athletic

Published on: 20 September 2019

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Wigan's Josh Windass is struggling to shake off a calf problem, while fellow forward Anthony Pilkington is sidelined with a quad injury.

Neither Tom Pearce, who has a back injury, nor Gary Roberts is likely to be fit to push for recalls.

Charlton remain without top scorer Lyle Taylor, who picked up a knee injury on international duty with Montserrat.

Defender Jason Pearce is expected to be fit but Lewis Page (Achilles) and George Lapslie (hamstring) are out.

Match facts

    Wigan and Charlton last met in League One in the 2017-18 season, with the Latics winning 3-0 away and drawing 0-0 at home on their way to promotion. Charlton have won one of their five away league matches against Wigan (W1 D1 L3) - a 3-0 win in the Championship in February 2015. Wigan Athletic have received more yellow cards than any other Championship side this season (20). Charlton have not lost consecutive league matches in 2019 so far, last doing so in their final two games of 2018 against Coventry and Barnsley. Wigan are winless in seven matches in all competitions (D2 L5) since winning their first league match of the season against Cardiff City. Since the start of last season, Charlton have won 61% (W31 D10 L10) of the games when Lyle Taylor has played, compared to just 23% without him (W3 D5 L5).

Source: bbc.com

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