{"id":20013,"date":"2025-04-14T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20013\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T19:39:14","slug":"phil-parkinson-hails-imposing-wrexham-player-after-tremendous-moment-v-wigan-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20013\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Parkinson hails ‘imposing’ Wrexham player after ‘tremendous’ moment v Wigan Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wrexham couldn\u2019t claim a victory against Wigan Athletic on Saturday afternoon, but Phil Parkinson will be pleased with a clean sheet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wrexham\u2019s<\/a> lead over Wycombe Wanderers has been cut down to just one point as the League One promotion race heads into its final four games.<\/p>\n

Wycombe beat Huddersfield Town<\/a> in midweek to take advantage of their game in hand, before beating Stevenage 1-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Wrexham only drew with Wigan Athletic<\/a> on Saturday, failing to register a single shot on target in a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n

In a game low on quality, Wrexham just couldn\u2019t find the key moment to break Wigan down, though Phil Parkinson was unhappy at not receiving a penalty<\/a> in the second half.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t win, then at least don\u2019t lose \u2013 but Wrexham did have Arthur Okonkwo<\/a> to thank in the second half.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Kevin Hodgson\/MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesPhil Parkinson on Arthur Okonkwo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wigan weren\u2019t exactly any more dangerous than Wrexham, registering two shots on target to Wrexham\u2019s zero.<\/p>\n

One of those chances came in the second half as Maleace Asamoah blazed away down the right flank.<\/p>\n

Few in Wrexham red could catch Asamoah, but Okonkwo stood strong to keep his shot out and preserve his clean sheet.<\/p>\n

Wrexham boss Parkinson has hailed Okonkwo whilst speaking on Wrexham Match Day Live following Saturday\u2019s draw.<\/p>\n

Parkinson noted that the Asamoah chance was a \u2018bad moment\u2019 for Wrexham, having given the ball away from a corner.<\/p>\n

Parkinson praised Okonkwo as \u2018tremendous\u2019, though, highlighting that he is an \u2018imposing figure\u2019 in one-on-one situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a bad moment for us really, because we had a corner and we gave it away, but Arthur was tremendous,\u201d said Parkinson.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an imposing figure in those situations and made a key save,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Arthur Okonkwo chasing clean sheet award<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okonkwo\u2019s clean sheet on Saturday now takes him onto 17 clean sheets in just 29 League One games this season.<\/p>\n

Okonkwo was benched by Parkinson<\/a> for a period earlier this season, as he needed more time to find his form after returning from injury.<\/p>\n

To rack up 17 clean sheets in 29 games is pretty astonishing, with Okonkwo boasting a clean sheet percentage of 58.6%.<\/p>\n

Okonkwo is tied on 17 clean sheets with Birmingham City\u2019s Ryan Allsop, but the Blues goalkeeper has played three more games this season.<\/p>\n

Wrexham stopper Okonkwo would no doubt love to take the clean sheet award for himself, but has just a handful of games to sneak ahead of Allsop outright.<\/p>\n

Okonkwo is just so good that he may well take top spot on his own, with Wrexham no doubt eyeing more clean sheets before the end of the campaign.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham couldn\u2019t claim a victory against Wigan Athletic on Saturday afternoon, but Phil Parkinson will be pleased with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[12993,94,12994,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-20013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arthur-okonkwo","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-phil-parkinson","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114338015721797734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}