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CALLUM LANG hailed one of the greatest moments of his life after knocking out Fulham.
The on-loan Wigan striker scored the winner to embarrass Claudio Ranieri’s Premier League strugglers and put Oldham in tonight’s fourth round draw. “I can’t quite believe it,” he said. “Last week it was touch and go whether I would be going back to Wigan and now I’m enjoying one of the best feelings of my career, if not one of the greatest moments of my life.”
Lang scored the 88th-minute clincher but he was not the only hero in blue. Super sub Sam Surridge’s last act, before he returned to Bournemouth from his loan spell at midnight, was a coolly-taken penalty which turned the tide.
And five minutes before Lang’s winner, keeper Dan Iversen had brilliantly parried Aleksandar Mitrovic’s spot-kick after the Serbian was sent on to convert a disputed penalty with his first touch.
When referee Anthony
Taylor’s instinct – that Chris Missilou had clipped Tom Cairney – was confirmed by
VAR, it looked as though Oldham, relegated on the final day last season, would be condemned to another hard luck story.
But Iversen, on loan from Leicester, dived full-length to beat out Mitrovic’s effort before Lang rose to meet Missilou’s left-wing cross from six yards.
Oldham caretaker boss Pete Wild, the club’s academy coach and a lifelong Latics fan, did exactly what it says on his birth certificate.
He let it all hang out with a potty dance on the touchline which Match of the Day producers invited him to relive hours later on the pundits’ couch. Lang said: “I Yp D@B< N8CK<IJ