In inarguably the shock of the week so far, the Latics stunned their opponents from North London at White Hart Lane on Saturday.

Hugo Rodallega’s winners 10 minutes from time gave Roberto Martinez’s men their first points of the season, while Spurs were subjected to their first defeat of the season.

Tottenham started sloppily, and Wigan could have taken inside the first 10 minutes. A Charles N’Zogbia corner was set up for Steve Gohouri by Mario Boselli, but the centre-half’s effort thundered back off the crossbar.

The home side then started to get into the game, and Jermaine Defoe brought the best out of goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi, who had replaced Chris Kirkland between the sticks.

Spurs were finding chances to hard come by, and closest they came was when Defoe latched onto a Peter Crouch knockdown but prodded his effort wide. Crouch, who had terrorised the Young Boys defence was being kept in control by Wigan’s centre-half pairing of Gohouri Antonin Alcaraz.

Roman Pavlyuchenko and Niko Kranjcar came in at half-time, but they were unable to inject anything into the game.

After lapping up all the Tottenham pressure, Wigan suddenly went into overdrive and threatened on many occasions at the other end.

Alcaraz was picked out by Rodallega, and from virtually under the crossbar, he somehow managed to sky his effort. Jordi Gomez also had a glorious opportunity to score, but his volley strayed wide.

But ten minutes from time, after seeming to be devoid of any sort of luck, Wigan got a huge chunk of fortune, and along with, their opener. Rodallega cut inside from the right, and his weak left footed shot was deflected by Carlo Cudicini into the net. The travelling fans were in dreamland, and the home fans were in utter disbelief.

Spurs went forward in search of an equaliser, and Defoe struck the side-netting. Al-Habsi was doing all he could to keep Spurs at bay, as he pulled off two magnificent saves to deny Kranjcar and Michael Dawson.

In the dying second, Younes Kaboul had a chance to level the scores but his glance from Kranjcar’s free-kick went over the bar.

After the game, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp slammed his side’s lacklustre performance.

He said, “It was a disappointing day. We never got going. We started the game sloppily and never got out of it. Credit to Wigan, they worked hard and pressed us and closed us down. We ran out of ideas about how to break them down. It was a rare bad day for us.”

Roberto Martinez, on the other hand, could not conceal his pleasure, and was all-praise for his side.