Live blog: Wigan Athletic v Bolton Wanderers

Tendayi Darikwa and Ian Evatt in animated chat as the teams/managers come out for the second half...former team-mates at Chesterfield...a bigger edge to this game all of a sudden...

James MccClean is out for the second half. Hopefully that will not come back to haunt Latics. Eggshells time.

No bigger fan of James McClean than me but I can’t see how he comes out for the second half...Ian Evatt has just ripped into the official at HT...every time McClean goes near a Bolton player second half it’ll be hearts in mouths...Bennett, Massey and Edwards on the bench. Worth pointing out I thought James McClean’s first yellow was ridiculously soft...maybe the referee had that in the back of his mind assessing the second one. He shouldn’t, of course, but maybe he did.

Crowd here at the DW is 15,279 with 4,071 from Bolton. Been a cracking atmosphere so far.

HT Latics 1 Bolton 0.Latics well on top, James McClean the goalscorer...but probably lucky to still be out there after that second foul on Afolayan, after picking up an earlier yellow for a foul on the same player. Need a second goal asap.

Wow Latics have got away with one there...a big one...Afolayan past McClean who drags him down...on a booking...free-kick but nothing else. Ian Evatt incensed, and he has a point.

Callum Lang’s just done Santos on the edge of the box and been completely blocked off...if the ref gives it it’s possibly a red...gives nothing...Leam fuming in the technical area...

Latics almost in again, Keane down the left, and his cross is turned behind for a corner just before Lang can slot it home.

Bolton continuing to cough up the ball cheaply, Latics can’t quite make them pay at the moment...15 to half-time...

Will Keane shot, fantastic block from Ricardo Santos...