After Wrexham lost ground to Manchester United in League Two, Phil Parkinson blasted the team’s defence as “ridiculous.”
The Red Dragons went into Salford City with the intention of securing a spot inside the automatic spots, but they have now dropped to fourth in the table. Although they still have games in hand on teams in their immediate vicinity, they have lost three straight games across all competitions, including crushing defeats by Newport County and Blackburn Rovers.
After Salford scored two goals from a handful of corners, Wrexham was behind two goals in just sixteen minutes. Parkinson commented, “We gave two goals away from corners which are ridiculous.” We set a high bar for ourselves against a team that is performing well. It is very difficult to lose when you give up two goals like that. They are a strong, set-play club that gets the ball to Matt Smith and makes it a real struggle. We pulled one back, but it was quite unfortunate that we couldn’t contain the third goal because we weren’t strong enough in our box.
Wrexham, with Hollywood co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney calling the shots, have become a big scalp for fourth tier rivals and Parkinson added on his side needing to do more in order to meet the many challenges that they face: “We have to find a way on our travels when the pitch isn’t great, or the other team plays a certain way, to come through these games with points because we have come out second best against Salford in important areas in the game. But if we had defended those two set-plays properly, we would start getting a foothold in the game but we gave Salford a huge lift. We knew what type of game it was going to be and we worked on that but you can’t legislate for two corners going in like they did. We got back in the game with a good goal from Sam [Dalby] but the third goal was a real blow for us because the conditions were in our favour second half and you fancied us with that goal to get back in the game.”
Parkinson’s side will be back on home soil next weekend, when playing host to Bradford City, and have seven days in which to pick the bones out of a disappointing performance against fellow stars of a popular documentary series – with Gary Neville, David Beckham and Manchester United’s fabled ‘Class of ‘92’ filling the boardroom at Salford.
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