Lewis Travis goes for goal but there's calls for a penalty from Blackburn for a Wigan handball from Omar Rekik.

But referee Matt Donohue says nothing doing.

Not the highest quality game, this.

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Callum Lang tries to seize the initiative for Wigan as he drills a shot from long range to try and give the visitors the lead in audacious fashion.

The end result looks dangerous but his right-footed drive goes over the bar.

Blackburn win another corner and newly signed winger Sorba Thomas is the man to take it.

But he curls it high and back out for a Wigan goal-kick.

Kevin Gallacher
Former Blackburn striker on BBC Radio Lancashire

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A little bit of luck there but great vision from Sorba Thomas and then the pass when it goes to Joe Rankin-Costello, he completely slices his kick.

He goes for too much power and puts too much on the ball by lifting his head.

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Tendayi Darikwa goes on the counter attack for Wigan as they break into the Blackburn half.

The visitors are patient in the build-up as James McClean gets on the end of a string of passes, but eventually Blackburn win it back and this topsy-turvy game continues as Rovers go on the attack.

Lewis Travis plays it to Joe Rankin-Costello who fires wide of the mark.

Bradley Dack once again looks to slot through a ball to wrong-foot the Wigan defence, only this time in the Latics box as Blackburn attack.

He forces Martin Kelly into a hasty clearance and the hosts win a corner, but Wigan clear their lines once more.

End to end stuff in the first quarter of an hour or so of this one.

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Danel Sinani is one of a number of Wigan debutants tonight, signed as Shaun Maloney looks to pick up what will need to be a number of victories if they are to beat the drop this season.

He tries his luck with a low drive from outside the box but Blackburn keeper Aynsley Pears dives down to make the save.

Kevin Gallacher
Former Blackburn striker on BBC Radio Lancashire

Lewis Travis is a far better player when he's not confined to being a holding midfielder.

Let him use his energies and he can do it. Blackburn have got more mobility but it's getting it through the front line to Bradley Dack and Jack Vale.

No sooner do Wigan win a corner then Blackburn clear it away, break upfield and win one of their own.

Lewis Travis is in the mix for the hosts in the build-up but when the corner's sent in, Wigan head it away with ease.

Bradley Dack curls an attempted long ball towards Ben Brereton Diaz out for a Wigan throw-in deep in the Latics' half of the field.

It's still all Blackburn but they're yet to really test the visitors so far.

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Blackburn should be ahead!

Some great link-up play between Bradley Dack and Ben Brereton Diaz sees the latter played through on the left wing as Rovers go on the attack.

He races through into the Wigan box completely unmarked but plays a tame low shot which fails to seriously test Latics keeper Ben Amos.

A waste.

Congratulations are in order for Wigan's James McClean, whose partner gave birth to a baby girl earlier today.

And he starts for Wigan tonight. Can he cap off a day to remember by helping the Latics to a vital win?

Right then.

It's a Monday night. It's cold. It's under the floodlights.

Blackburn get us under way.

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Blackburn make two changes following their FA Cup win at Birmingham last week as Sorba Thomas makes his debut for the club, while Hayden Carter also starts.

Struggling Wigan hand debuts to Martin Kelly, Omar Rekik and Danel Sinani, while Jack Whatmough, Tendayi Darikwa and Callum Lang return to their XI.

Blackburn: Pears, Rankin-Costello, Carter, S. Wharton, Pickering, Travis, Buckley, Thomas, Dack, Brereton Diaz, Vale.

Subs: Hilton, Phillips, Morton, Szmodics, Hedges, Dolan, Gallagher.

Wigan: Amos, Kelly, Whatmough, Rekik, Darikwa, Power, Tiehi, McClean, Sinani, Keane, Lang.

Subs: Jones, Nyambe, Pearce, Caulker, Naylor, Aasgaard, Wyke.

Mike Minay
BBC Radio Manchester

Six weeks ago I was there at the unveiling of Kolo Toure – a young, new, inexperienced manager who’s worked under some top names, ready to cut his teeth in the Championship with a difficult task of keeping Wigan up.

Today. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Copy. Paste.

Shaun Maloney - is it a risk? Yes. But am I more convinced than I was listening to Toure? Yes.

The way Maloney spoke when I interviewed him last week convinced me he has got what the club needs (yes, it helps, he did play for them once upon a time) and that he’s telling us where he needs to work on.

The fans I’ve spoken to are excited about the team he’s picked tonight. It might not be so much about the result as about the performance tonight. Wigan need to link the defence to midfield to attack, something that was missing in recent weeks.

Time is running out for the Latics, however, and a point tonight could be so valuable in building confidence.

BBC local radio

Unfortunately we cannot bring you live radio commentary of tonight's game.

But BBC Radio Lancashire are in position to take you through all the action, while BBC Radio Manchester are offering updates from Ewood Park.

Grab a radio if you're in the area and tune in.

Andy Bayes
Sports Editor, BBC Radio Lancashire

Tonight is a meeting of two sides who haven’t had great success in recent weeks.

In their past eight league games, Blackburn Rovers have taken seven points from a possible 24, with Wigan Athletic taking five.

It’s a run that has seen the Latics make a second managerial appointment in the space of nine weeks.

Shaun Maloney takes charge for the first time, with some of the six January window signings on show.

Jon Dahl Tomasson is still smarting from his club failing to secure two deadline day captures, with all terms agreed.

A win takes Wigan off the bottom. They haven’t won at Ewood Park in the league since their 1-0 win in May 2012, which relegated Rovers from the Premier League.

As for the home side, it’s a chance to climb back in to the top six after slipping out on Friday night.

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In steps Wigan's third manager of the season.

After Kolo Toure was sacked after just nine games in January, during which he did not win a game in charge of the club, former Latics winger Shaun Maloney took charge just before deadline day.

He takes over a club who are bottom of the league and in serious need of points, and travels to Ewood Park for his first game in charge.

Maloney, who was part of the Wigan squad that won the FA Cup in 2013, faces a Blackburn side out of form of late, with Jon Dahl Tomasson's side picking up just one win from their past five games.

Can Wigan's revival start here?

Blackburn director of football Gregg Broughton says their failure to sign Nottingham Forest's Lewis O'Brien and fellow midfielder Ethan Brierley from Rochdale is "frustrating and annoying".

They are appealing against the English Football League's decision not to ratify the transfers because of late submission of paperwork.

O'Brien had agreed a loan and Brierley had been due to sign permanently.

"I'm devastated, as are both players," Broughton told BBC Radio Lancashire.

"This was not a case of waking up on deadline day and saying 'let's sign Lewis O'Brien'. There had been a six to eight week process leading up to it."

You can read more about the events of Blackburn's deadline day experience here.

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Right, quiet down. Stop talking. No-one wants to hear any more hot takes on Happy Valley or whatever.

It's football time now.

We're being treated to some Monday night football in the Championship as Blackburn take on struggling Wigan.

Kick-off is coming soon.