{"id":176811,"date":"2025-10-03T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176811\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:59:08","slug":"wrexham-v-birmingham-city-hollywood-derby-rivalry-factor-not-important-says-phil-parkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176811\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham v Birmingham City: &#8216;Hollywood derby&#8217; rivalry factor not important, says Phil Parkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrexham, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cq5jyzwq6l4t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drew 1-1 at Leicester City<\/a> on Tuesday, are still seeking their first home league win of the season after two draws and two defeats so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis O&#8217;Brien had put Wrexham ahead against Derby County last Saturday only for Ben  Brereton Diaz&#8217;s strike to deny them their first three points at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously we won in the EFL Cup against Reading and went through on penalties against Hull,&#8221; Parkinson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Derby, the game was there for us, really, and we didn&#8217;t take the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it&#8217;s just about performance level and we&#8217;re looking at the performance against Leicester and a lot of the Derby game as well and what we need to do well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If we can bring that to the table on Friday, we&#8217;ll have a great chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham, who drew 1-1 at Leicester City on Tuesday, are still seeking their first home league win of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-176811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}