We understand how great the gulf between Wigan and Manchester City.
At the beginning of the week Manchester City came to visit Wigan in the 5th round of the FA Cup. The same Wigan, who in 2013 did not give the "townspeople" a trophy in the final. Then both teams were in the Premier League, and now they are shared by 43 places in the standings, as Wigan performs in League 1, the third English division.
Portal BBC tried to figure out how great the gap between the teams.
Financial mismatch Manchester City - one of the richest clubs in the world. If you compare the money spent on purchasing the teams that went to the match, you can see that the "townspeople" spent more money on any of their players than Wigan for the whole 11-ku.
Immediately nine footballers of Wigan came to the club for free - 7 free agents and 2 more for rent. For the author of the only goal in the game, Will Grigg Wigan paid 1.3 million pounds. The cheapest player of City Fabian Delf - 8 million.
The game in one goal, Wigan was able to win in a match in which Manchester City owned the ball as much as 82.5% of playing time.
Also, "citizens" as many as 29 times beaten on goal. True defenders managed to block 17 of them, and only five were on target, but successfully played the goalkeeper, "latix" Walton.
Wigan gave 184 transfers for the match, which is 659 less than the City. This is more than 4.5 times. The accuracy of the "blue" gears is 91%. While Wigan only 61%.
Who defeated the team this season?.
Let's enumerate all the teams that this season celebrated the victory over Wigan and Man City.
"Townspeople" lost to Shakhtar in the Champions League and Liverpool in the Premier League, and now Wigan.
Latics were defeated by Aston Villa, Shrewsbury, Peterborough, Accrington Stanley, Bradford, Southend and Blackpool.
The best attack against the best defense of Manchester City almost "five minutes" champion of England. Guardiola wards scored 79 goals in the Premier League and 114 in all tournaments. This is the best score in all the professional clubs in England.
Do you know who is the best in defense? Wigan. "Latix" in the 30th match of League 1 conceded only 18 goals! Man United has 19 in 27 Premier League matches.
Wigan was the first team to manage to beat the MC this season, not missing out at the same time. Also, the "athletes" became the third team not to miss the City.
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