Latics suffer Rodallega blow

Latics suffer Rodallega blow

Published Sep. 17, 2011 9:15 p.m. ET

The Colombian forward was taken from the pitch in added time of the 3-1 defeat at Goodison Park and manager Roberto Martinez said the injury looked to be a serious one. If the injury is confirmed, Martinez can expect to lose the striker for several months. "It is too early to tell but the signs are not good, it seems like it's a rupture of the medial ligament in his right knee," said Martinez. "He will have a scan in the morning but it doesn't look a good one." Everton manager David Moyes has issues of his own relating to strikers - only off the pitch. Louis Saha, who has played just 41 minutes this season in two substitute appearances, was left out of the squad and immediately vented his frustration on Twitter. "I am not good enough. Absolutely destroyed. It's coz I'm confident in my ability that I'm gutted," the 33-year-old Frenchman wrote on learning he had not made the 18. Asked about the player's comments Moyes said: "It's good that, great. I want them upset when they are not involved." It is understood Saha left the ground soon after discovering he was not in the squad. "Everybody reports for the game and we tell them the subs, because they knew the team," added the Everton boss. "I'm not really that bothered. I was interested in the 11 players I was concentrating on and that is what everyone should have been concentrating on." The scoreline flattered Moyes' side somewhat as although they dominated possession they lacked a cutting edge up front after Phil Jagielka's third goal of his Everton career had equalised Franco di Santo's deflected shot 97 seconds earlier. However, the introduction of the 19-year-old Apostolos Vellios and Royston Drenthe bore fruit with late goals. "We made the decision we needed to try something," explained Moyes. "We ran out of ideas midway though the second half and we were looking for solutions as to how to cause Wigan problems. "The goals may have come but I wasn't so mad on bits of the performance. "If you judge it on goals it worked, but if you judge it on performance like I do then I would be hoping all the subs would come on and play much better. "But if we are expecting a 19-year-old boy from Greece and a couple of free transfers to come on and make a difference then people have to change their expectations." Martinez felt his side warranted a point from the game. "It is one of those days where you don't get the result you deserved," said the Spaniard. "Ninety percent of our performance was exactly what we wanted and that little 10% was not to stop two crosses, one in the first half and one in the second. "I feel we got heavily punished feel if we had played this game 10 times we would have got something out of it in nine of them."

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