We gave Wigan Athletic 'shot of adrenalin' - Stanley boss

Latics flew out of the blocks at the DW, and were three goals to the good inside 32 minutes thanks to Tom James, Dan Gardner and Will Keane (penalty).

It took a complete fluke cross-shot from Joe Pritchard just after the hour mark to give Accy any joy.

And although Michael Nottingham quickly added a second goal, Latics secured the game through Ollie Crankshaw before Cameron Burgess' late strike.

"I'm not feeling too good, to be honest," acknowledged Coleman. "What you've got to expect in football is it doesn't always go your way.

"Wigan were better than us today - I won't make any qualms about that.

"Sometimes the opposition team plays better than you, and there's various reasons why that happens.

"One of the big reasons is the shot in the arm we gave them for the goals.

"We've given them a stupid goal for the first, and we seemed hell-bent on trying to better that, and be even more calamitous for the other goals.

"Wigan were good, they passed the ball well, but they had the shot of adrenalin courtesy of us.

"They score with their first attack, and that gives them a lift from then on.

"To be honest, 3-0 flattered us at half-time - it could easily have been five.

"We made a couple of changes at half-time, and it was no reflection on the lads who came off because I could have taken anyone off, with the exception of Mark Hughes, who I thought was outstanding.

"We won the second half, which we wanted to do, to protect our goal difference.

"But I still don't think we did enough to warrant anything out of the game."

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