{"id":369445,"date":"2025-08-24T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369445\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:43:15","slug":"supercomputer-changes-wrexham-25-26-championship-league-position-after-sheffield-wednesday-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369445\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer changes Wrexham 25\/26 Championship league position after Sheffield Wednesday draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wrexham played out a 2-2 draw with Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, handing them their first point of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While securing their first point of the campaign is a step in the right direction for the Dragons, the result does feel more like a defeat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrexhaminsider.com\/match\/wrexham-player-ratings-vs-sheffield-wednesday-kieffer-moore-stuns-but-theres-a-5-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrexham drew 2-2 with Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> after taking a 2-0 lead into half-time \u2013 both scored by Kieffer Moore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrexhaminsider.com\/match\/the-private-dressing-room-message-phil-parkinson-sent-to-wrexham-players-against-sheffield-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phil Parkinson\u2019s team talk<\/a> versus the Owls seemed to have little impact, however, and his inability to match the away side\u2019s change of shape in the second 45 cost the Welsh outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there has been a change made by Opta\u2019s supercomputer that is impacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrexhaminsider.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrexham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2231669509-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Smith and Barry Bannan during Wrexham AFC v Sheffield Wednesday - Sky Bet Championship\" \/>Photo by Jess Hornby\/Getty ImagesWrexham Championship league position changed after Sheffield Wednesday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrexhaminsider.com\/news\/supercomputer-writes-off-wrexham-promotion-hopes-already-with-shocking-championship-prediction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrexham were predicted a 21st-place finish<\/a>\u00a0by the supercomputer before the campaign got underway.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was a 2-1 loss to Southampton on the opening day and a 3-2 defeat to West Brom.<\/p>\n<p>After clashing with the Baggies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrexhaminsider.com\/news\/supercomputer-predicts-disaster-for-wrexham-as-ryan-reynolds-and-rob-mac-nightmare-becomes-a-possibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrexham were predicted to be 24th in the Championship<\/a> by Opta.<\/p>\n<p>But after earning a draw against the Owls on August 23, they have moved up the table, just.<\/p>\n<p>Wrexham are now backed to finish 23rd in the second tier with 52.01 points by <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/competition\/english-championship\/table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Opta<\/a>. Oxford United are expected to take the bottom place, with Derby County also being relegated.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesbrough and Coventry City are favourites to secure automatic promotion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2211494057-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Reynolds ahead of Wrexham AFC v Charlton Athletic FC - Sky Bet League One\" class=\"wp-image-36680\" \/>Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesWhen will Wrexham win a Championship fixture<\/p>\n<p>Wrexham are next in action on Tuesday, facing Preston North End in the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Their final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrexhaminsider.com\/tag\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a> fixture of the month sees them travel to Millwall on August 30.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions are an experienced second-tier outfit and it seems unlikely three points will be taken back to Wales.<\/p>\n<p>In September, meetings with QPR, who were just beaten 7-1 by Coventry, and Derby County represent the best chances for the Red Dragons to secure a first Championship victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham played out a 2-2 draw with Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, handing them their first point of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,9030,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115083097567953646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369445","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=369445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}