Wigan Athletic chief has 'mixed emotions' after Huddersfield Town draw - 'Should he have been on the pitch to do that?'

The first half belonged to Huddersfield, who led through Murray Wallace's free header on 33 minutes from a right-wing free-kick.

But the half-time introduction of striker Dara Costelloe for defender Luk Robinson helped the visitors gain a stranglehold on the game.

Raphael Borges Rodrigues levelled seven minutes after the restart with a cool finish off Callum Wright's beautiful through ball.

The on-loan Coventry City winger almost put Latics ahead shortly after, when he cut in off the left wing only to see his superb bending effort come back off the bar.

Wright and Christian Saydee couldn't make the most of decent opportunities in the final quarter, with Latics indebted to Sam Tickle for denying Town substitute Bojan Radulovic, ensuring honours ended even.

"I've got mixed emotions to be honest," assessed Lowe. "I was disappointed with the goal we conceded, because we're usually good at dealing with that, we're solid and resolute, but the lad just gets across us.

"We changed one or two things at half-time, we put on another striker, and I thought the '10s' were working well.

"We felt we could get at them a little bit more, which we did, we scored a fantastic goal to make it 1-1.

"Then lo and behold, Raph comes inside and almost wins if for us with a superb shot that comes back off the bar.

"If that goes in, it's a fantastic three points for us, but it's still a fantastic point against a very good club, and a good team.

"I don't think they really hurt us that much, we were well set up behind the ball, so credit to the boys because I felt they were excellent.

"You also have to give Huddersfield a bit of credit, they had bodies on the line and they defended well in the second half.

"I can't just stand here and say it was all us, because it definitely wasn't, especially in that first half."

Lowe was also asked when Town's goalscorer should have been on the pitch to open the scoring, having cut down Fraser Murray with an ugly lunge inside 15 seconds.

Referee Darren Drysdale opted to brandish only a yellow card - which angered the visiting team.

"Should he have been on the pitch to do that, do you know what I mean?" added Lowe.

"I haven't seen it back, but our lads were saying they (the officials) didn't know what to do, they were asking each other over the mic's what to do.

"I don't know, I'll have to ask Darren, and you don't ever want to see any player sent off.

"If it was 20 minutes in, rather than 20 seconds, who knows, it might have been different.

"What I do know is Fraser has got a gash at the top of his leg, so that shows how high it was."