West Brom v Wigan reaction

West Brom v Wigan reaction

Published Dec. 10, 2011 7:15 p.m. ET

Moses scored his first goal for 13 months to cancel out the opener from Steven Reid's free-kick and then won the penalty converted by Jordi Gomez for the winner. Victory moved the Latics out of the bottom three of the Premier League. Martinez said: "I don't think Victor has had a bad spell this season. He has been very consistent. "He is only 20, he had a great birthday present, on Monday he is 21 and the first goal was as good a finish as you are going to get in this league. "I know that sometimes playing for Wigan you are not going to get as much credit as playing for other clubs. "But the way he has been working on a daily basis, he has got huge potential and I've got no doubts that he is going to fulfil it." Martinez was pleased with his side's overall performance in recovering from going behind to record back-to-back away wins. He said: "I felt we calmed their crowd and took the sting out of the game. "I know we had to cope with the hardest thing in football which is going one goal behind to a fantastic amount of skill from Reid. "For an hour, I thought we were very comfortable. We kept the ball very well, we looked like a team playing with real confidence. "To do that when you are bottom of the table, gives you great confidence. "In the last 15 minutes you would expect West Brom to put us under massive pressure. "Then we had to show a completely different way to perform which is real concentration and real good defensive intensity and working very hard for each other." Albion have now conceded penalties in four successive home games but head coach Roy Hodgson preferred not to comment on decisions made by referee Mike Dean. He said: "My wife slaughters me for complaining about the penalties, and she is probably right, so I prefer to say nothing. "People can make up their own mind. We will just get on with it. There is no doubt that it was a penalty for their goal. "If he (Dean) got any of the others (decisions) wrong, I don't know. Time will tell. "The TVs will go through the analysis. They will come up with the answers. I will keep my mouth shut." Hodgson took consolation from his side's performance. He said: "It was one of those days where you find it hard to assess things in the sense that losing at home to team below you in the table should fill you with a lot of regrets and anger. "But I can't be angry with that performance really because I don't think we can play a lot better than that. "If we can guarantee playing like that for the next 24 games, then I'll be happy. "We've certainly had results this season where we've played nowhere near as well as today."

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