{"id":532938,"date":"2026-03-11T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532938\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:05:14","slug":"wrexham-feeling-sorry-for-themselves-in-costly-loss-to-hull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532938\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham ‘feeling sorry for themselves’ in costly loss to Hull"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Parkinson said his Wrexham<\/a> side were “feeling sorry for themselves” as they went down 2-1 at home<\/a> to fellow promotion hopefuls Hull<\/a> and missed the chance to go fifth in the Championship.<\/p>\n

Wrexham could have overhauled the Tigers with victory but instead suffered a first defeat in five league games, falling behind to goals in either half from Joe Gelhardt<\/a> and Lewis Koumas<\/a> before a 76th-minute strike from Nathan Broadhead<\/a> offered false hope of a late comeback.<\/p>\n

The defeat came only three days after Wrexham’s thrilling 4-2 FA Cup loss<\/a> to Chelsea<\/a> in extra time, a night that took its toll as top scorer Kieffer Moore<\/a> was missing with a hamstring injury he first felt on Saturday, while George Dobson was suspended after his red card against the Premier League team.<\/p>\n

“I just felt there’s an element of maybe Kieffer getting injured, Dobbo suspended, a little bit maybe feeling sorry for ourselves,” Parkinson said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve always had a real resilience about us here. We’ve had lots of games, lots of moments where people have said, ‘How are they going to come back from that setback?’<\/p>\n

Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson was disappointed in his team’s performance in their loss to Hull.\u00a0Cody Froggatt\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“And I just felt with the news about Kieffer and Libby [Cacace, also injured] and things like that, I just felt within the dressing room there was that little bit of flatness.<\/p>\n

“But we’ve got to be bigger than that and we’ve got to come out fighting on Friday [against Swansea].”<\/p>\n

Parkinson said it was too soon to put a definitive timescale on Moore’s injury but said the 33-year-old had to be considered a “big doubt” for Wales’ World Cup qualifying playoff against Bosnia and Herzegovina on March 26.<\/p>\n

“I think we’ll know more in a week or two, but well, it’s a week or two that it’s coming up so I’d say his a doubt for that, a big doubt,” he said.<\/p>\n

Hull were comfortably on top for most of the night, not unduly troubled until Broadhead’s late goal offered Wrexham hope of an unlikely comeback.<\/p>\n

An eighth win in their last 10 on the road puts them six points above Wrexham and nine above seventh-placed Derby as they strengthened their grip on a play-off place.<\/p>\n

It also gave the Tigers revenge for their Carabao Cup<\/a> defeat here in August when Ollie Palmer scored two late goals to cancel out a 3-1 Hull lead before Wrexham prevailed on penalties.<\/p>\n

Hull boss Sergej Jakirovic said: “It’s a very important three points and a very big victory against a very good team. They have shown it all season, they are playing good football, especially at home.<\/p>\n

“They are very dangerous and you never know here even if it’s two or three zero because we had already one experience in the summer in the EFL Cup … I think tonight we played very well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Parkinson said his Wrexham side were “feeling sorry for themselves” as they went down 2-1 at home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-532938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}