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Final - The JJB Stadium Attendance: 21,731
Wigan 1 - 1 Everton
Paul Scharner (45)
David Thompson (og 9)
Two see red in JJB drawPA
Red mist descended on the JJB Stadium as an explosive encounter saw both sides finish the game with 10 men.
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David Thompson sends Tony Hibbert flying
Everton striker Duncan Ferguson had only been on the field seven minutes when he was shown a straight red card by referee Mike Dean for punching Paul Scharner in the stomach.
Three minutes later Wigan striker Jason Roberts was also given his marching orders for elbowing David Weir in the face.
Roberts faces a three-match suspension but will not miss the Carling Cup final, providing Spurs bring forward a Premiership fixture.
• Roberts escapes Carling Cup final ban
The game at White Hart Lane is currently scheduled for February 25, the weekend Wigan head to the Millennium Stadium.
But with both teams out of the FA Cup it is almost certain to now be played on February 18, the weekend of the fifth round.
It is not the first time Ferguson has been involved in such controversy, and Roberts is also starting to earn himself a reputation.
He was fortunate not be sent off at West Ham in December and later charged by the Football Association with violent conduct for a similar incident involving James Collins.
It was a remarkable end to a game which started 15 minutes late due to an accident on the M58, the main route carrying Everton supporters to the JJB Stadium from Merseyside.
Paul Jewell's side lacked fire from the off while Everton, in light of their recent resurgence of four successive wins coming into this game, appeared a side on the up.
They were quicker to the punch for an opening half hour by the end of which they were a goal to the good, although it should have been more.
Their ninth-minute opener was somewhat fortuitous, with influential midfielder Tim Cahill - in the side after serving a one-match ban - latching onto a long goal-kick from the restored Richard Wright.
The Australian proceeded to twist and turn his way into a shooting position on the edge of the area, eventually unleashing a drive which ricocheted off the covering Stephane Henchoz.
As David Thompson challenged Leon Osman for the loose ball, the new Latics star, who scored on his debut 10 days ago in a 3-2 win at Middlesbrough, made it an unwanted two in two games by prodding an own goal past the stranded Mike Pollitt.
Five minutes later Everton came close to making it 2-0 with the Wigan defence caught napping following a short free-kick from Mikel Arteta to Osman.
Osman's pull back found an unmarked James McFadden for a near-post flick that Pollitt superbly beat away at point-blank range.
At that stage it was nearly all Everton, with a linesman's flag then denying them a second as an offside Cahill bundled home a McFadden shot tipped away by Pollitt.
Moyes' side appeared in little danger of relinquishing the advantage as Wigan were struggling to create anything of note, with their sporadic attacks foundering on a seemingly-resilient rearguard.
But after an offside flag denied Roberts - the striker applying a cool finish to a through ball from Scharner - it was the Austrian who found the equaliser.
It was all too easy for Wigan, with Henchoz delivering a raking ball down the right wing for Pascal Chimbonda after a Thompson free-kick had cannoned off the wall.
The Frenchman headed the ball on into the six-yard box where Scharner sidefooted past Wright for his second goal for the club following a #2million move from Brann Bergen earlier this month.
That gave Wigan the impetus to take the game to Everton after the break, yet all credit to the Toffees for withstanding the pressure applied.
Pollitt had to be at full stretch to tip away a drive from Arteta soon after the restart but from then on it was primarily all Wigan.
They were unable to find a winner however, with another Roberts effort ruled out for a push on Alan Stubbs.
• Roberts escapes Carling Cup final ban
Wigan manager Paul Jewell has warned star striker Jason Roberts he could still miss the Carling Cup final.
The third game of his ban would have been the Carling Cup final with Manchester United at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on February 26.
The Latics were originally due to play Tottenham at White Hart Lane in a Premiership fixture that weekend.
However, with both Spurs and Wigan out of the FA Cup, their game will now be arranged for the fifth-round weekend on February 18 - with that encounter due to complete Roberts' suspension.
But Jewell has warned there is no guarantee his side's 13-goal leading scorer will go straight back into the team to face United.
'I didn't see the first incident (involving Ferguson) so I can't comment on that,' said Jewell. 'But if somebody as big and as strong as Jason wants to elbow you, you don't get up.
'I have seen it and his elbow was high, but I think it's more silly than malicious. He is not a malicious type of player, although he does play with his hands in the air sometimes.
'Yet it could cost him a place in the cup final and how tragic would that be. What I am saying is what happens if someone comes in and scores a hat-trick in each game between now and then?
'No one player in this club is guaranteed their place.'
Everton boss David Moyes, meanwhile, could offer no defence for Ferguson's moment of madness.
The hot-headed striker had only been on the field seven minutes following his arrival as a substitute when he became involved in a brief war of words with Scharner.
The Austria international gently shoved Ferguson away, and the former Scotland star replied with a right hook to the stomach that felled the midfielder.
'I cannot defend it,' stated Moyes. 'He let us down and he knows it. I didn't get a clear view at the time. Everybody was running out of the box and we (Moyes and his coaching staff) had turned away.
'I spoke to Chris Hutchings (Wigan assistant manager) and we thought that two players had run into each other, but I have had a chance to see it since.
'I have spoken to Duncan and told him I cannot defend what he did. I was disappointed in him.'
Jewell added: 'I would rather talk about us coming back, after a poor first half, and nicking a point. That was a big point for us because Everton were better than us in all departments in that first half.
'They outran us, outfought us, outplayed us, and if I had been David at half-time then I would have been sick going into the break at 1-1 because we were never in the game.
'While I am disappointed we have lost one of our key players, I am happy we have got something out of the game after not playing well.'
At least Everton managed to extend their unbeaten league run to five matches, following four previous wins, yet Moyes was still left frustrated.
'I thought, in the first half, we played well enough at times,' said Moyes 'We never gave Wigan any opportunities until late on, and then their goal came from a stupid free-kick.
'Instead of us being 1-0 up at the break, we went in one each, and that only adds to the frustration.' |
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