📏 Form Guide

Wigan Athletic

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Wigan prepare for this match coming off the back of a 1-1 League One drawn match against Barnsley.

The only scorer from Wigan Athletic was Joe Taylor (29'). Charlie Lennon (96') was the scorer for Barnsley.

Gary Caldwell's Wigan Athletic have found the net a sum total of 7 times in their preceding six outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures amounts to 8.

Leading up to this clash, Wigan Athletic:

• are unbeaten in the league by Exeter City in their previous 3 matches.
• have not registered a win against Exeter City in their previous 4 league games.

Exeter City

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After being beaten in their last game against Luton Town in League One action, Exeter City will be hoping to turn things around here.

For Exeter City, goals were scored by Reece Cole (25') and Ilmari Niskanen (49'). Kasey Palmer (13'), Jordan Clark (29') and Hakeem Odoffin (45') scored for Luton Town.

Indicating their bias toward fruitful encounters, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the last 6 matches in which Exeter City have taken to the field, giving a mean average of 3.5 goals per fixture. Opposing teams have hit 16 of those goals. Even so, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern will continue on here in this game.

Analysis of their past results shows that Exeter City:

• haven't been defeated by Wigan Athletic when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 5 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 18/01/1997 shows that Wigan have won 2 of these games & Exeter City 1, with the tally of draws standing at 3.

A sum of 10 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 6 from The Latics and 4 created by The Grecians. The average goals per game has been 1.67.

The previous league match featuring these sides was League One match day 15 on 08/11/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Exeter City 1-1 Wigan Athletic.

The referee was Stephen Parkinson.

📋 Team News: Exeter City

Thanks to a largely full-strength squad, there is only the one fitness issue for the Exeter City boss Matt Taylor to be concerned with. Josh Magennis (Ankle injury) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

We’re of the view that Exeter City are likely to get a goal against this Wigan Athletic team, however it may not quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re expecting a 2-1 victory for Wigan Athletic after 90 minutes. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Peter Guest, 14:09 21/03/2026