Wrexham Manager Parkinson Cautions Against Complacency Despite Strong Home Record

Phil Parkinson, who received the League One manager of the month award for August, has stated that Wrexham will not take anything for granted, even with three of their next four League One matches scheduled to be played at home. Wrexham has maintained an undefeated record at the Stok Racecourse this season, having secured victories in six of their seven games played there. Parkinson’s team is set to host Exeter City on Saturday, followed by home fixtures against Lincoln City and Barnsley. “Home form’s been good – we’ve got to look to not take that for granted,” Parkinson said. He added, “We’ve got to look at what we’ve done well at home and what we need to reproduce.” Parkinson concluded, “It’s one game at a time as always and we look forward to welcoming Exeter.” Ahead of Saturday’s game, Wrexham currently sits third in the table and aims to rebound following a 1-0 defeat at Stockport County last weekend. Parkinson described his side’s third league loss of the season as “frustrating.” “Stockport played a shape we’ve come up against many times and we didn’t function, first of all without the ball in the way I know we can against that shape,” Parkinson told BBC Sport Wales. He further commented, “We showed once we started passing the ball with the quality that we did in the second period we could have got back into the game.” “It always hurts when you lose, especially to Stockport because they’re our local rivals, but we’re in a good position in the league table,” Parkinson remarked. He concluded, “We’ve got to take the lessons from that game and look at Exeter closely, which we have been this week, and picking the team with the conditions and the training in mind which we feel is the right one to start this game.”