AFC Wimbledon are welcoming Wigan Athletic for another important game after their 1-2 result against 1st-placed Lincoln City.
- AFC Wimbledon has the most dropped points from leading position (21) in League One
- Wigan Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the League One. This match was also played here at Rowley Lane. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Wigan Athletic have had more rest.
AFC Wimbledon form and stats
AFC Wimbledon's struggle is real here at Rowley Lane with only 8 points collected from 9 League One games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-5. Three consecutive losses here at Rowley Lane is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match. Wimbledon has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager G. Hodges and the players.
AFC Wimbledon's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Lincoln City (placed 1st). Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Oxford United (0-2).
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Wimbledon have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found one game) they have won zero times, drawn zero and lost one.
The Wimbledon fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 14 goals in 9 league matches. AFC Wimbledon are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (18 from 9 played).
Wigan Athletic form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Wigan Athletic so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 3-1-6 (win-draw-lose).
It's the second away game in a row for Wigan Athletic, but there's smiles all around after the 4-3 victory versus Burton Albion (placed 24th) in the League One last time out. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Shrewsbury Town.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Burton Albion was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today? It's hard not to mention Kyle Joseph's lethal finishing against Burton Albion. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.
Wigan Athletic are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, six draws and eleven defeats. From a total of 18 matches.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Wigan as they have only managed to score 9 times from 10 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Wigan struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 16 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: zero - one - one (AFC Wimbledon wins - draws - Wigan Athletic wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Pigott 10 goals |  R. Longman 5 goals |   K. Joseph 4 goals |
AFC Wimbledon missing players
Wigan Athletic missing players
| AFC Wimbledon | Wigan Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 10 | 20 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 25 | 14 | 2 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 21 |
| 33 | 18 | 5 | Conceded | C | 3 | 16 | 35 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 70% | 78% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 70% | 70% |
| 50% | 78% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 40% | 45% |
| 25% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 10% | 25% |
| 15% | 22% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 10% | 25% |
| 65% | 78% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 40% | 50% |
| 20% | 11% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 10% | 15% |
| 15% | 11% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.2 | 10.6 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 8.7 | 8.5 |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 2 | 2.4 |
| 32% | 41% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 80% | 45% | 44% |
- AFC Wimbledon has the most dropped points from leading position (21) in League One
- AFC Wimbledon have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- AFC Wimbledon haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Wigan Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lincoln City | 20 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 41 |
| 2 | Hull City | 19 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 13 | 37 |
| 3 | Portsmouth | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 17 | 35 |
| 4 | Doncaster Rovers | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 33 |
| 5 | Peterborough United | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 32 |
| 6 | Charlton Athletic | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 32 |
| 7 | Ipswich Town | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 32 |
| 8 | Accrington Stanley | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 30 |
| 9 | Crewe Alexandra | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 30 |
| 10 | Fleetwood Town | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 29 |
| 11 | Sunderland | 18 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 29 |
| 12 | Oxford United | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 28 |
| 13 | Blackpool | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 13 | -3 | 27 |
| 14 | Gillingham | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 13 | -3 | 26 |
| 15 | Plymouth Argyle | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -9 | 26 |
| 16 | Milton Keynes Dons | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 26 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 25 |
| 17 | Shrewsbury Town | 20 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 24 |
| 18 | Bristol Rovers | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -7 | 22 |
| 19 | Northampton Town | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 36 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 19 | -17 | 22 |
| 20 | AFC Wimbledon | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -8 | 21 |
| 21 | Rochdale | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 15 | -7 | 19 |
| 22 | Wigan Athletic | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -14 | 19 |
| 23 | Swindon Town | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 25 | 41 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 23 | -16 | 17 |
| 24 | Burton Albion | 22 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 28 | 50 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 27 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 23 | -22 | 13 |