{"id":420072,"date":"2026-01-21T04:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T04:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:09:08","slug":"wrexham-rue-nothing-moment-in-draw-with-leicester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420072\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham rue ‘nothing moment’ in draw with Leicester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 20, 2026, 09:31 PM ET<\/p>\n

Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson was left hurting after watching Jannik Vestergaard<\/a> snatch a point for Leicester from a “nothing moment” in their 1-1 draw<\/a>, but felt there were positives to take from a battling performance in horrible conditions.<\/p>\n

The Dragons were on top for much of a wet and windy night in north Wales, taking the lead through Lewis O’Brien’s 63rd-minute strike as they contained a disappointing Leicester for most of the second half.<\/p>\n

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After falling behind, the Foxes did not register a single attempt at goal until they won a late free kick and Caleb Okoli<\/a> flicked on Jordan Ayew’s chipped ball forward for Vestergaard to sweep home.<\/p>\n

Wrexham certainly looked much better than in Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat to Norwich, but could not hold out for a win that would have put them level on points with sixth-placed Preston.<\/p>\n

Parkinson said: “Another hour down the line I’ll probably be looking at more of the positives, but when you concede so late in a nothing moment, of course it hurts.<\/p>\n

“If you take away the moment at the end, which of course we’ll discuss, I’d be saying to everybody that was a really gritty, hard-working performance and a great response from the weekend.<\/p>\n

“But obviously the gloss is taken off it because we haven’t dealt with one ball into the box which is held up in the wind, it’s kind of swirled.<\/p>\n

“If we head that out, we’ve won the game. They react quicker, it’s almost a slow-motion moment.<\/p>\n

“So we’re frustrated because apart from one counter-attacking moment in the second half we weren’t troubled the whole night.”<\/p>\n

Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson leaves the field after his team’s 1-1 draw with Leicester City.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Instead of moving level with Preston, who suffered a 3-0 home loss to Hull, Wrexham had to be content with ninth place.<\/p>\n

Marti Cifuentes’ inconsistent Leicester side offered desperately little for so much of the night but capitalized after Wrexham failed to find a killer second.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard admitted his side had struggled to adapt to the conditions, but praised the way they kept fighting to earn late reward.<\/p>\n

“The second half was not a good one,” he said. “Obviously when they took the lead emotionally that affected us a lot, a lot of frustration, a lot of situations that were difficult to understand but at the same time credit the players, they fought to the end and it’s a point.<\/p>\n

“I think that doesn’t change the fact we’re disappointed. Always we want three points, We don’t care if we’re away, if we’re playing a team that’s doing well.<\/p>\n

“Always we want three points. One point is better than zero but it’s not what we wanted.”<\/p>\n

Asked about his side’s failure to create chances, Cifuentes added: “We have do do much better.<\/p>\n

“Actually you could see the emotions after the goal and in the last three or four minutes we were perhaps the more aggressive to try to get a second goal.”<\/p>\n

Wrexham are back in action on Saturday away to Queens Park Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 20, 2026, 09:31 PM ET Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson was left hurting after watching Jannik Vestergaard snatch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-420072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}