- Wigan are 23rd in League One 2026/2027 after 4 points from 6 games.
- Wycombe are 19th in League One 2026/2027 after 6 points from 6 games.
Chess match at The Brick
Wigan Athletic have been well beaten in a game or two already this season and it doesn't look like the 'Wagatha Christie' effect has really taken hold at the Brick Community Stadium.
Gary Caldwell has certainly moulded his squad into a team-first, data-led unit in his short time in charge, but a team-first, team-first unit is nothing without a winning formula and that appears to be what the Latics lack.
They are 23rd in League One 2026/2027 after 4 points from their first 6 games and the pressure is already on Caldwell to turn things around ahead of Saturday's visit of Wycombe Wanderers.
The Latics are narrowly odds-on at 37/25 for the win against a Chairboys outfit that are 19th in the table after 6 points from 6 matches, with the draw priced at 5/2 in the match result market.
Wigan's home form in League One 2026/2027 is 1 win and 2 defeats from 3 matches and they have conceded seven goals in total in the games they've played at the Brick Community Stadium so far, which is 2.33 per game.
Wycombe are leaky on their travels
It could be a similar story for the Chairboys in this one as Tom Hounsell's men have conceded 2.67 goals per game away from home and scored 1.67 in their one win, one draw and one defeat from three away games.
But the visitors do come into this game on the back of a 3-2 away win at Leyton Orient which may have given them a bit of bite for the match. And the Chairboys do have a proven goalscorer in Cauley Woodrow and an effective creator in Ewan Henderson, who has 3 assists in 6 games from a tidy supply line behind the striker.
Wycombe have won each of the last 3 meetings between the clubs in League One, so there's a little bit of a psychological advantage for the visitors going into this. And there's a feel of inconsistency in the Latics' performances to date which has the Wycombe game in the 'squeaky bum time' category.
A 3-1 win at home to Milton Keynes Dons, a 0-4 defeat at home to Stockport County and a 0-0 draw away at Sheffield Wednesday have come in the last three games for Gary Caldwell's side - a swing of 3-1 to 4-0 at the Brick Community Stadium looks like a tough one to get your head around.
Hounsell has done some good things with his Wycombe team so far and there is an element of flexibility to their shape that doesn't exist for Wigan. It's not really a game to go all in on, but the away side's head-to-head advantage and the fragility of the Latics at home in this division mean the slight lean has to be with the Chairboys.
Over 2.5 goals is favoured at 7/10, which does fit with Wycombe's away numbers and Wigan's leaky defending at the Brick Community Stadium, but both teams to score at 11/20 is a live option alongside the favourite.
