{"id":4347,"date":"2025-07-12T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4347\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:39:04","slug":"how-australian-media-reacted-to-wrexhams-win-at-melbourne-victory-one-player-stood-out-as-dragons-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4347\/","title":{"rendered":"How Australian media reacted to Wrexham’s win at Melbourne Victory, one player stood out as Dragons ‘dominate’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wrexham are down under, touring Australia and New Zealand as part of their pre-season preparations ahead of the 2025\/26 Championship season.<\/p>\n

Phil Parkinson\u2019s<\/a> side kicked off their summer in Melbourne on Friday. Wrexham beat Melbourne Victory 3-0<\/a> in what was a routine opener, with goals from Thomas O\u2019Connor, Ryan Hardie<\/a> and George Evans on the day.<\/p>\n

Following the success of Welcome to Wrexham<\/a> in America, and the success that the club enjoyed on their Wrex Coast Tour last summer, Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac<\/a> thought it\u2019d be a good idea to head out to Australia.<\/p>\n

Wrexham are trying to build a fanbase in Australia<\/a> but ticket sales for the Wrexham Down Under tour have been slow so far.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Wrexham\u2019s win over Melbourne Victory has been received well by press down under, with plenty of praise for a Dragons side who looked rampant upon their return to action.<\/p>\n

\"WrexhamPhoto by Robert Cianflone\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Football is still a growing sport in Australia. But Wrexham<\/a> have certainly caught some attention whilst they\u2019ve been there, and the media have also paid attention to what is, in essence, a relatively unimportant game, and many outlets have reported on the sheer dominance of Wrexham over Melbourne Victory.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood that Melbourne fielded a very young and makeshift side. Wrexham meanwhile played two different XIs: one in either half. Australian outlet 6News<\/a> went with the headline \u2018Wrexham dominate Victory to start Down Under tour\u2019, and a brilliant piece from The Age<\/a> went with \u2018Wrexham dominate Melbourne Victory, but the full story is beyond the Marvel Stadium pitch\u2019, which looks into the reason why Wrexham are in Australia right now.<\/p>\n

Another major Australian outlet called The Roar<\/a> titled their piece on the game \u2018Wrexham in effect: Victory vanquished as key signing makes Hollywood entrance\u2019.<\/p>\n

Hardie\u2019s name in particular was mentioned a lot by the press. The Age wrote: \u201cThe difference between the teams from then on was particularly stark. Hardie\u2019s darting front-post run brought his first goal for Wrexham, getting onto the end of a Ryan Barnett cross<\/p>\n

\"WrexhamPhoto by Robert Cianflone\/Getty ImagesWhat Phil Parkinson said about Wrexham\u2019s win over Melbourne Victory<\/p>\n

What the Australian media makes of Wrexham, whilst interesting, matters little. But what Parkinson made of it all is much more important.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the game, Parkinson rued the lack of quality from Wrexham<\/a> in the game. He explained: \u201cWe got a foothold of the game and you felt a goal was coming for us, and we locked attacks in and we had some good sustained periods of pressure. Then we put them under a bit of pressure with some good quality, but probably not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

To say that after a convincing win, albeit against a weak side, shows the levels of quality that Parkinson is demanding this summer. And rightly so as Wrexham are joining a Championship with huge amounts of talent.<\/p>\n

Wrexham play Southampton on the opening day<\/a> and that might prove to be their toughest assignment of the season: perform well in that one and it could set a positive tone for the season, but perform poorly and it could have many starting to worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham are down under, touring Australia and New Zealand as part of their pre-season preparations ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4981,403,99],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-australia-pre-season-tour","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}