Wigan Athletic 1-2 Rotherham United

Wigan have not won any of their last eight home matches

Rotherham earned their first win in 10 matches to leave fellow strugglers Wigan six points from safety after just one win in 17 matches.

Tom Lawrence capitalised on Andrew Taylor's mistake to race through on goal and open the scoring for the visitors.

Ben Watson headed home a leveller for Wigan from James McClean's corner after the break.

But Alex Revell headed the winner just a minute later.

Wigan, one of the pre-season favourites for promotion, have not won at home in the Championship since the end of August and lie second-bottom.

They were denied a late leveller when Oriol Riera's header came back off the crossbar as new boss Malky Mackay suffered a fourth defeat in his five matches in charge.

The victory was Rotherham's first away win in the league since 23 August, and moves them up to 19th.

Wigan manager Malky Mackay:

"We're creating chances, we're just not being clinical enough in front of goal, and at the other end we're giving away not even soft goals.

"Physically we did match them, we worked hard enough, but we have to be clinical at one end and resilient at the other - and we've not been good enough at either end so far.

"The squad is too big, and we've got to make sure in January we do business properly. It's about us trying to build a team here, and my first responsibility is trying to improve the team."

Rotherham manager Steve Evans:

"I thought Wigan started better than us, and for 10 minutes they caused us problems. Once we sorted ourselves out we dominated for long spells.

"Credit to my players, they're very young in the main but we are giving them the freedom to express themselves.

"I said last week that Tom [Lawrence] is like a lighthouse in a dark ocean, and when he scores a goal and works as hard as that, you know he's a lighthouse in a dark ocean with a nice bottle of red wine waiting for you when you get there.

"He's a special talent and you need to get him on the ball. For every week we've got him we're grateful."