Bolton Wanderers suffered a heavy loss to local rivals Wigan Athletic in League One.
The Latics took the lead in the first half when Will Keane slotted home early on to put Leam Richardson's side ahead at the break.
Wanderers nearly equalised through skipper Antoni Sarcevic just after the break, but Wigan struck back with a fabulous strike from James McClean.
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Callum Lang added a third before McClean scored Wigan's fourth to compound Bolton's misery.
After the encounter, Wanderers boss Ian Evatt spoke to the press and here's a transcript of his initial reaction.
From a Bolton Wanderers perspective, is that as difficult to take as it was to watch?
“Yeah. It’s a humbling defeat really. We were really under par all over the pitch. It’s frustrating.”
Do you think you motivated Wigan with saying you thought Bolton were the best team in the league?
“I said that after last Saturday’s game, not about Wigan, and I said it because of our performance, not because of the result. That’s nonsense excuses.”
How do you assess it overall?
“Just woefully under par. We’ve had a really tough week with injuries. We’ve got obviously two out of the back four injured and Kieran Lee who has been playing out of his skin injured.
"Other people are playing with injuries and we were light and you can’t afford to be light against the best teams in this league and Wigan are one of the best teams.
"They are powerful, they’re strong, they did nothing different to what we thought, we were just under par, so credit to them.”
The players you selected, were you disappointed with their performance?
“I was disappointed with everybody’s performance, not just the ones that came in. I understand that derby games, you’re going to have nerves, but that isn’t a stop sign.
"The way we play and how we play and the bravery we show in possession, if you lack a bit of belief, you’ll get found out and today I thought we were fearful, I thought we were negative.
"We didn’t take risk, when we’d broken their press, we were too quick to pass backwards and they were able to regroup and reform. We conceded really poor goals, the first goal is obviously a bad mistake, whether it’s handball or not, it is, but it is what it is.
“Just as we’re getting a head of steam up after half-time and we’ve just hit the bar, to concede from a goal kick is woefully poor. The third and fourth goal looked exactly the same, so it’s humbling. No excuses from our perspective, not good enough and we’ve let a lot of people down today.”
In terms of the performance overall over the 90 minutes, is that the worst that you’ve seen since you’ve been at Bolton?
“No, but it certainly brings back some awful memories of the start of last season.
"The Port Vale game springs to mind, Leyton Orient away. I think it’s just a rude awakening of where we’re currently at right now and where they’re currently at and we just cannot afford to be under par like we have been today.
"We have to be full tilt all systems go all of the time, and if you have off days, that’s what can happen against the better teams in this league.”
