Good evening and welcome to LIVE coverage of Newcastle United against Wigan Athletic from St James' Park. An 8pm start in this one.

Don't forget you can watch highlights of this match, along with every Premier League game, from 00:01 on Monday morning (UK only).

There goes the final whistle. A 3-0 win for the home side. Thanks for joining us.

Kone can't get the shot at the home goal after some decent skill. Goalkick to the home side.

Cisse gets a shot at goal from Ferguson's pass. Never had the power to beat Al Habsi. We remain at 3-0. Four minutes added to the match.

The home fans beginning to head for the exit doors. Not sure how many Wigan fans remain in the ground.

Newcastle going to have to see out this game with 10 men after Ba limps off with his hamstring strain.

This is set to be Wigan’s ninth defeat in 15 Premier League matches this season – the same number of defeats as they had at this stage of last season.

Ba has a hamstring problem here after sending the ball into the path of Cisse, who is offside. Poor piece of play.

Callum McManaman brought crashing to the deck by Gael Bigirimana. Not going to matter much with Wigan well out of this game.

Di Santo departs to be replaced by Callum McManaman.

Wigan end up going back all the way back to their own half. Ferguson then nearly robs Stam of the ball.

Sylvain Marveaux is late on McCarthy. The visiting side have a free-kick chance from 30 yards out or so.

Ferguson with a couple of poor crosses into the area with Ba and Cisse unable to get near the deliveries.

At 19 years and 42 days old, Bigirimana is the third-youngest Premier League scorer this season and Newcastle’s youngest player to score in the division in eight years – since James Milner (18-265) in 2004.

McCarthy being spoken to by the referee after his late challenge on Anita.

Sammy Ameobi is immediately booked for pulling back a red shirt after coming off the bench.

Jonás Gutiérrez departs to be replaced by Sammy Ameobi.

Krul forced to dash off his line to whack away what looked like a short passback by Northern Ireland player Ferguson.

Gael Bigirimana scored his first ever Premier League goal in his sixth appearance in the division. He is the first ever player from Burundi to score in the Premier League – the 89th different nationality to score in the division.

Krul and Kone compete for a loose ball in the middle. Excellent delivery again from Stam, but the home team survive another hairy moment.