Having started on the bench in the drubbing by West Ham, Moore was back in the Wrexham starting line-up.<\/p>\n
And the Wales forward fully demonstrated his importance to Parkinson’s methods.<\/p>\n
He held up the ball well, made numerous timely defensive interventions and took his goal in typical fashion.<\/p>\n
Moore was at his monstrous best in the memorable wins against Coventry, Sheffield United and Ipswich Town last season.<\/p>\n
Now with three goals to his name going into the first international break of the season, the 34-year-old was fully deserving of his ovation when withdrawn in the second-half.<\/p>\n
As for the Saints, they will likely feel they did enough to leave north Wales with all three points.<\/p>\n
Indeed, the visitors had 67% possession, 19 shots, 11 more than Wrexham, and seven shots on target.<\/p>\n
Cyle Larin, Ward-Prowse, Ryan Manning and Azaz all had chances as Wrexham had to dig deep at times.<\/p>\n
But Eckert will no doubt be targeting defensive improvements after his side conceded for the eighth Championship match in succession.<\/p>\n
If the issues at the back can be resolved, Southampton will undoubtedly be serious automatic promotion contenders. But until then, they will likely continue to come unstuck from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having started on the bench in the drubbing by West Ham, Moore was back in the Wrexham starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-629820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}