Oldham to 19th in League Two and now sit a place ahead of Ian Evatt's Wanderers side after the win on goals scored, having the same points as the Trotters and an identical goal difference.
And Kewell said he would 'love' to play Wanderers 'week in, week out' due to their footballing abilities after watching what he felt was a good game.
He said: "We’ve worked hard this season, especially in pre-season and in the games we’ve tried to work and we’ve tried to do things right and we needed that little bit of luck as well, but we didn’t get it in the first few games. "But I thought the boys today were exceptional from moment one.
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