Doncaster Rovers are the visitors to the DW Stadium on Saturday, recent history favours the Latics in this fixture with four wins in the last four meetings.
Our first ever meeting back in 1965 came in the 1st round of the FA Cup, a 2-2 draw over at Belle Vue saw the South Yorkshire men brought back to Springfield Park for a Wednesday afternoon replay.
Despite the game being played during ‘office hours’ a crowd of 7,113 witnessed a typical Harry Lyon performance, stretchered off in the first half with damaged ankle ligaments, the Latics number 9, following a tot of whisky, a woodbine and a hefty amount of strapping returned to the field of play and fired home a hat-trick to see the Latics through 3-1 and into the 2nd round.
Donny and the Latics have met 37 times down the years, we have 16 wins, with five of those coming in Doncaster and each one has been memorable. The first win was during our first season as a Football League club, 24 February 1979, a Jeff Wright goal was enough to give us the points and keep our outside chance of gate crashing the promotion places alive. Two of the other three were high scoring affairs, September 1982 Latics winning 3:6, the highest scoring game we’d been involved in at that point, skip forward six years to January 1988 and a thrilling 3:4 win at the old Belle Vue ground.
Latics have only lost twice in the league at home to Doncaster, both in the third tier and both in the 1980’s, 0:1 in April 1986 and a 0:3 whopping in January 1983, coming off the back of that 9 goal thriller at their place in the September.
Memorable Match
Doing the double over Doncaster last season was an outstanding achievement, under the circumstances, we won the home fixture in early October courtesy of a 59th minute Joe Garner header, but the away fixture brought a top class performance from the Latics, who were missing Callum Lang with concussion.
Goals from Joe Dodoo, Thelo Aasgaard and Viv Solomom-Otabor had put the Latics firmly in the driving seat just past the half hour mark, despite Donny scoring a goal on the stroke of half time, the Latics continued to dominate the game in the second period and Will Keane’s 81st strike sealed the win and put the cap on a fine individual performance by Wigan’s very own Zidan.
The highlights are worth watching just for Keane’s contribution to the 3rd goal.
Match Highlights – Doncaster 1:4 Latics
Full Record v Doncaster Rovers
Played – 37
Won – 16
Drawn – 10
Lost – 11
Last Six Meetings
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Competition |
Date |
Result |
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League 1 |
10 Apr 2021 |
Doncaster Rovers 1:4 Latics |
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League 1 |
03 Oct 2020 |
Latics 1:0 Doncaster Rovers |
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League 1 |
05 May 2018 |
Doncaster Rovers 0:1 Latics |
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League 1 |
21 Nov 2017 |
Latics 3:0 Doncaster Rovers |
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League 1 |
16 Apr 2016 |
Doncaster Rovers 3:1 Latics |
|
League 1 |
16 Aug 2015 |
Latics 0:0 Doncaster Rovers |
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