{"id":420725,"date":"2026-01-21T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420725\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:59:08","slug":"wrexham-remain-in-strong-position-despite-more-dropped-championship-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420725\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham remain in strong position despite more dropped Championship points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parkinson made six changes to the side that started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c99k1dg9r79t\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 loss to Norwich<\/a> three days earlier for the visit of Leicester, who had lost three successive away Championship games before their trip to north Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan Longman, Matty James, Cacace, Ollie Rathbone, O&#8217;Brien and top scorer Kieffer Moore were all drafted in, offering evidence of the strength in depth Parkinson has at his disposal as his injury worries continue to ease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrexham sit just two points outside the top six and, despite dropping two points in the final stages, actually rose to ninth in the table as a result of the Leicester draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They return to action on Saturday (15:00 GMT) against a Queens Park Rangers side who were comfortable 3-1 winners ar Stok Cae Ras in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Red Dragons have grown and evolved significantly as the sides prepare to lock horns again at Loftus Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The QPR loss was Wrexham&#8217;s third league defeat in five matches at the outset of the campaign, with their return of four points from a possible 15 during that period coming at a rate of 0.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 23 league matches since, Wrexham have taken 37 of the 69 points available to them, giving them a drastically improved return of 1.6 points per game over that period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parkinson made six changes to the side that started the 2-1 loss to Norwich three days earlier for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-420725","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\/420725","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=420725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}