Charlton crashed to a second successive defeat at the DW Stadium on Saturday.

Two games without Lyle Taylor, two games without a goal, two games without a point.‎ It would be over simplistic to attribute every problem to Taylor’s absence,but there is no doubting the huge influence the prolific marksman has on the team.

Deji Oshilaja,  Naby Sarr. Darren Pratley and Jonny Williams came in for Chris Solly, Jason Pearce, Sam Field and Erhun Oztumer. Bejam Kayal was replaced by Jake Forster-Caskey on the bench.‎ Oztumer was also missing from the bench.

The Addicks were sunk by two goals that you do not expect Lee Bowyer teams to concede. They were both scored by central defender, Chey Dunkley, from set pieces.

In the first-half, the ball fell for Dunkley in the six yard box, and he had time to slot home. Then in the second period, he rose unopposed to thunder in a header from a left wing corner.

Charlton had their chances – especially towards the end. Tom Lockyer and Josh Cullen went desperately close.

But there is no denying Wigan deserved their win. Charlton were poor. As an example, it was ‎the final moments of the first-half before they won their first corner.

It took a fracas involving skipper, Pratley, and the introduction of Chuks Aneke to turn the Addicks into a serious attacking force.

Bowyer was scathing of his team’s performance after the game: “Disappointing is an understatement, that was the worst we’ve played since I’ve been in charge in the first half. We couldn’t put three passes together, that’s not us.

“To lose the game on two set-pieces is also not us, we normally defend so well on set pieces. 

“Their centre-half scores two goals – a volley from inside the six-yard-box and a free header from inside the six-yard box.

“It shouldn’t be possible. I’m really disappointed. We created enough chances to get something from the game but we’re not ruthless enough in front of goal. Last week was the same.

“Their ‘keeper made some great saves. We should have had a penalty for the foul on Naby Sarr in the second half…

“For me it just wasn’t good from start to finish, there’s no positives really. It was just the worse we’ve played since I’ve been in charge.”

It is unusual for Bowyer’s team’s to lose two games on the spin. But Bowyer knew it would happen at some stage this season:

“This is going to happen in this division. That’s why I was saying three or four weeks ago that people were being stupid with their suggestions that we’re going to try and get promotion or be in the hunt for it.

“It’s a tough league and we’re going to come to places like this and it’s going to be difficult. You have to earn the right to play and win games and today we didn’t do that.”

And getting back to winning ways will not be easy either, especially as Leeds, Swansea and Fulham are up next.

The Addicks will play all thre of them in a seven day spell.

“It’s going to be tough, every game. Even games that we’ve gone and won, they’ve been tough. The games that we’ve just lost were tough. There isn’t going to be any easy ones.

“Nothing changes for us, I’ve said it from day one our aim is to stay in this division. We’ll be okay, we’ll be fine I’m sure,” said Bowyer.

‎Bowyer did. feel his team deserved a penalty though:

“So Naby Sarr ran off their defender and he just blatantly pulled him back. It’s a blatant penalty, the ref’s looking straight at it, I don’t know why he doesn’t give it. And that was at one nil. 

“The game changes from then. But then that’s a small detail. In 90 minutes, we didn’t do enough to win that game today. We weren’t good enough today.”It was very similar to last week’s game, but you’ve got two teams that want to win the game. 
Did they do anything wrong? I don’t think they did. They’re just trying to win the game as much as we are.”
Charlton: Phillips; Oshilaja, Lockyer, Sarr, Purrington; Pratley (Aneke. 68), Cullen, Gallagher; Hemed (Bonne 62), Leko.

Subs (not used): Amos, Pearce, Forster-Caskey, Solly, Field‎

Booked: Lockyer 55 (foul)‎‎

Wigan : Marshall; Byrne, Dunkley, Mulgrew, Robinson; Morsy, Williams, Massey (Evans 69), Jacobs; Moore (Garner 84), Lowe (Naismith 69). ‎

‎ Subs (not used): Jones, Macleod, Fox, Gelhardt‎

Goals: Dunkley  22, 70.

Booked: Morsy 45 (foul).

Attn: 9,567 (970  Charlton)‎.Referee: Andy Davies (Tyne & Wear).