Last updated on .From the section Championship

Goalscorers Will Grigg and Nick Powell celebrate the former's first-half penalty

Hillal Soudani's last-gasp equaliser earned Nottingham Forest a point against Wigan Athletic that extended their unbeaten run to five games in all competitions.

Soudani - Forest's match-winner in their victory against Reading last weekend - was again the hero as he pounced on Christian Walton's penalty save from Lewis Grabban to fire home in injury-time and deny the Latics a deserved second win of the season.

Wigan had opened the scoring within the first two minutes when Nick Powell thumped a header past Costel Pantilimon from a corner, although Matty Cash finished off a counter-attack move to level just eight minutes later.

The hosts retook the lead from the spot when Will Grigg smashed in his 50th Latics league goal and, after a largely dominant second period, it looked as though it would be enough for the points.

However, Sam Morsy, who hit the post in the first half, hauled down Cash in the box late on and despite Walton's save, Algeria international Soudani buried from close range to secure an unlikely draw.

Forest, who under Aitor Karanka have spent more than £25m on talent such as Joao Carvalho and Diogo Goncalves, were given a tough time by Paul Cook's side throughout.

The draw was cruel on newly-promoted Wigan, who in pacy Everton loanee Antonee Robinson and former Sheffield United midfielder Lee Evans have made their own impressive signings.

However it was promotion heroes Grigg, Powell and former Derby winger Michael Jacobs who were at the heart of their best play and, while disappointing under the circumstances, the point leaves them in mid-table with only one defeat from their first three outings.

Wigan boss Paul Cook said:

"I don't feel hard done by. When you're talking about a team like Forest, with calibre like that, they're always capable of hurting you no matter what stage of the game it is.

"If I'm being truthful, I felt we did do enough to win the game, but football doesn't work like that.

"But while we're disappointed with the result, I don't think anyone inside the stadium would be disappointed with how we performed."

Nottingham Forest boss Aitor Karanka said:

"I think we deserved our point at the end. We created quite a few chances, although you are always a little fortunate when you equalise in added-time.

"Of course we had to hang in there when we were losing 2-1, but I told my players we had time to get back into it.

"We could easily have gone into the break 3-1 or 4-1 down, because we didn't play very well in the first half."