Grigg is the late hero as City’s quad dream goes up in flames
WIGAN: Walton, Byrne, Dunkley, Burn, Elder, Massey (Colclough 77), Power, Perkins, Powell (Fulton 27), Roberts (Jacobs 55), Grigg.
Subs not used: Bruce, Jones, Hunt, James. MAN CITY: Bravo, Danilo, Stones, Laporte, Delph, Gundogan, Fernandinho, D Silva (De Bruyne 65), B Silva, Aguero, Sane (Walker 45).
Subs not used: Kompany, Ederson, Zinchenko, Foden, Diaz.
Man of the match: Will Grigg
Match rating: 8/10
Referee: Anthony Taylor PEP Guardiola was involved in a furious row with Wigan boss Paul Cook as Manchester City’s quadruple bid was sensationally derailed by their FA Cup bogey team.
Northern Ireland international Will Grigg scored a stunning late breakaway goal as Wigan repeated their shock 2013 final victory over City in a fiery fifth round tie at the DW Stadium, winning 1-0.
The main talking point came on the stroke of half-time as City’s Fabian Delph was controversially sent off and an irate Guardiola became embroiled in a touchline argument with Cook.
The pair continued their row in the tunnel as the teams left the field at half-time and they had to be separated by colleagues.
After all Guardiola’s recent complaints about bad tackles on his players, Delph was dismissed for sliding in on Max Power.
Yet, despite their numerical disadvantage, City had only themselves to blame for spurning a host of chances against the League One side.
Grigg made them pay in the 79th minute as the Latics secured another famous victory over City following their 2013 success and another in the quarter-finals the following year.
Against the odds, it is now they who go forward to a lasteight tie with Southampton and not the runaway Premier League leaders.
Adding to Guardiola’s frustration might have been bad tack- les on Sergio Aguero and Danilo by Dan Burn and Gavin Massey respectively, but his team also lacked a cutting edge.
They dominated possession throughout but could not take advantage. Aguero headed over early on and Ilkay Gundogan forced a good save from Christian Walton.
Gundogan found himself in another good position only to mis-kick and Aymeric Laporte also failed to make clean contact in front of goal.
Fernandinho blazed over from a gilt-edged opportunity about eight yards out, Gundogan missed the target with another effort and Danilo dragged a shot wide.
Yet all the while, Wigan were defending stoically and threatened occasionally on the break.
Claudio Bravo needed to be alert to smother the ball at Gary Roberts’ feet and Grigg fired into the side-netting after beating John Stones.
Aguero looked like opening the scoring after breaking into the box just before the interval, but Walton produced another fine save.
Controversy then erupted as referee Anthony Taylor dismissed