Josh Windass struck five minutes before the interval to give Wrexham a hard-fought 1-0 success<\/a> and push Oxford to the brink of relegation.<\/p>\n – Wrexham’s Rob Mac offers Coventry trip to Vegas<\/a> Wrexham move above Hull — who drew 2-2 at Leicester — into sixth and are now level on 70 points with the Tigers and boasting a goal difference superior by two.<\/p>\n Wrexham’s hopes of making the playoffs — and possibly a historic fourth consecutive promotion — now rest on closing fixtures against champions Coventry and fifth-placed Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n “The [Premier League] dream is still alive and we feel we’re in a good place,” Parkinson said.<\/p>\n “Nothing more we can do than win and we just concentrated on making right decisions from the bench and getting another three points.<\/p>\n “To get 70 points is a good statement in our first season in the Championship and now we want more. It was important we did our job, and we did that to a man.”<\/p>\n Top scorer Windass’ fifth goal in six games came during a cagey first half in which Wrexham had the better chances.<\/p>\n They had to soak up pressure in the second half, particularly in the final 20 minutes, as Oxford threw balls and bodies into the box.<\/p>\n “We showed two sides to our game,” Parkinson said. “First half we had really good control in the game, we were patient and took care of the ball.<\/p>\n “The moment came and we had chances second half, but we knew Oxford would throw caution to the wind. They’re fighting for their lives.<\/p>\n “Long throws, set pieces, and we defended as a team. Everyone did their job.”<\/p>\n PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 21, 2026, 06:55 PM ET Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson said the club’s Premier League dream is “still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-598644","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\/598644","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=598644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Leicester’s ‘horrible’ journey ends with relegation<\/a>
– Wright scores as Coventry win Championship title<\/a><\/p>\nWrexham manager Phil Parkinson reacts at the final whistle of his team’s win over Oxford United.\u00a0David Davies\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n