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A year ago

REPORT: BURNLEY 3-0 WIGAN

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Nathan Tella's twofold assisted out of control Title pioneers Burnley with getting back to prevailing upon ways with a 3-0 triumph 10-man Wigan at Turf Field which extended their lead at the top to 13 places. The Clarets were held by Wigan's kindred strugglers Blackpool last end of the week yet never searched at risk for dropping more focuses once Tella had given them a merited lead following 14 minutes.


Wigan stay base on objective distinction and their goal was not helped by playing the last hour of the game with 10 men after focal protector Omar Rekik - borrowed from Weapons store - was shipped off by ref John Busby briefly alert, both for fouls on the enthusiastic Tella. Tella is partaking in a great season-long credit from Southampton and added his second two minutes into the final part to take his count to 16 in all rivalries.




Substitute Lyle Encourage added the third - his first for the club - as Burnley arrived at the 80-point mark. With 10 games still to play, they stay well on course to top the century mark. Vincent Kompany's smooth passing group ruled all along and Anass Zaroury went near giving them the lead following 10 minutes when his shot hit the post.


They didn't need to stand by lengthy to make the leap forward, notwithstanding, with Tella guided a looking header into the most distant corner of the net from Zaroury's pin-point cross. Rekik's most memorable watchfulness had followed a careless tackle on Tella in the 10th moment yet the Tunisian worldwide didn't gain proficiency with his illustration and saw red subsequent to making a plunge again on Tella 20 minutes after the fact.




Wigan supervisor Shaun Maloney responded by taking off striker Josh Magennis and sending on protector Stephen Caulker, who was denied a balancer contrary to the rules when his short proximity header was saved by Arijanet Muric.


Muric likewise saved from Ashley Fletcher's shot after a mix-up by Hjalmar Ekdal before the break yet Burnley required just two minutes of the last part to give themselves a two-objective pad when Tella scored with his second header of the game after Ashley Barnes had helped on Joey Gudmundsson's corner.




After that it was only an instance of the number of widespread Burnley would score. Zaroury (two times) and Vitinho wasted great opportunities to expand the lead before Cultivate scored with a shot from a tight point in the 76th moment in the wake of being set up by individual sub Michael Obafemi.


Jack Stopper, another sub, went close late on with a fine shot that effervesced only wide as Burnley finished a high-scoring twofold over their Lancashire neighbors having won 5-1 at the DW Arena back in August.




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