Rodgers: Draw a fair result

Swansea City manager Brendan Rodgers believes his team deserved a point after holding Wigan Athletic to a goalless draw on Saturday.

Playing their first match at home since winning promotion to the English Premier League, Swansea had goalkeeper Michel Vorm to thank for keeping out a penalty from Wigan midfielder Ben Watson.

The visitors also went close through Victor Moses and Jordi Gomez, who both struck the woodwork.

But despite those chances, Swansea controlled much of the possession, leaving Rodgers to claim the draw was a fair result.

“From my side a point was the very least that we deserved, we controlled large parts of the game and created chances which was great to see, and we were just waiting for one of them to go in,” Rodgers said.

“But you understand that against an established Premier League side you are going to have a five-to-10-minute spell, and in that spell they hit the post, hit the bar and got the penalty.”

“But I was very proud of the team today, especially early on. It’s about results of course, but for us it is always about performance.”

Roberto Martinez, a former Swansea favourite as both player and manager, thought his Wigan players were unfortunate not to collect all three points at his old club.

“When you miss a penalty and hit a post and the crossbar you think you should win,” Martinez said.

“If you played that game 10 times you would win it more times than you would draw it.”

“We knew the team of Swansea, they were great to see and they used the ball in the great way they do. But we opened up a bit in the second half and we thought we looked a threat every time we went forward.”

“You don’t get many games where you miss a penalty, hit the post and hit the bar so in that respect I think we dropped two points.”