Premiership: West Brom 1 - 2 Wigan Athletic

David Connolly has been scoring goals for more than a decade. Until yesterday, however, never in England's top league. All of his 123 league goals had come either in the equivalent of Division One or during a spell in Holland. But, finally given his chance by Wigan at the age of 28 to appear in the Premiership following a £2m move from Leicester on transfer deadline day last month, Connolly took 40 minutes to make his mark at this level.

Wigan had been struggling to break down West Brom's defence when Damien Francis fed the ball through into Connolly's path on the edge of the penalty area. He took one touch to bring it under control and with his second drove a shot beyond Chris Kirkland.

Connolly's dream introduction into the Premiership was completed in injury time when Jimmy Bullard scored the winner before more than double the number of Wigan fans who had been there at the start after they had been delayed following a traffic jam on the M6.

Jonathan Greening goals are a lot rarer than one's from Connolly, but his first for West Brom since joining them from Middlesbrough more than a year ago had put them ahead in the 26th minute.

He drove home from the edge of the penalty box after the ball had come back to him from Wigan keeper Mike Pollitt, who had punched his originally deflected shot straight back into his path. Connolly was a replacement for Nathan Ellington, who had left them to join their opponents.

He was one of three strikers appearing against their former clubs and, like Geoff Horsfield and Jason Roberts, was predictably booed by fans that had once adored them.

Roberts, scorer of 24 goals in 89 appearances for West Brom, seemed to be the most unpopular of the three, making a mockery of his claims in the local newspaper earlier in the week that he did not anticipate any problems.

The nephew of Cyrille Regis had left the Hawthorns in January 2004 because he claimed that the manager of the time, Gary Megson, had teased him so much.

Indeed, after Greening's goal, the biggest cheer of the afternoon was reserved for Roberts in the 24th minute when having won the ball off Neil Clement he slipped on the wet surface and fired embarrassingly wide.

He had to wait a long time for his revenge, but when it came it was worth it. The match was deep into injury time when he controlled the ball on the by-line and played it into the path of Bullard, who placed it past Kirkland and secure Wigan's second consecutive win in the Premiership.

Man of the match David Connolly - did not look out of place.