{"id":370919,"date":"2025-08-24T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370919\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:34:11","slug":"phil-parkinson-impressed-with-one-wrexham-summer-signing-after-magnificent-display-v-sheffield-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/370919\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Parkinson impressed with one Wrexham summer signing after ‘magnificent’ display v Sheffield Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wrexham threw away a 2-0 lead to only muster a 2-2 draw against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phil Parkinson<\/a> is no fool; the Wrexham<\/a> boss absolutely knew that the Championship would be a major step up in quality.<\/p>\n

Wrexham have now made 10 signings<\/a> to cope with that increase in quality, but the results haven\u2019t come through just yet.<\/p>\n

Saturday saw Wrexham draw 2-2 with Sheffield Wednesday<\/a>, despite taking a 2-0 lead into the half-time break.<\/p>\n

Wrexham ran out of steam in the second half and saw goals from Barry Bannan and Bailey Cadamarteri salvage a point for Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Parkinson\u2019s day could have been completely ruined late on, but Danny Ward produced a crucial save to deny Charlie McNeill in stoppage time.<\/p>\n

\"KiefferPhoto by Jess Hornby\/Getty ImagesPhil Parkinson praises Wrexham\u2019s Kieffer Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wrexham\u2019s 2-0 lead was established by two fine finishes from Kieffer Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Welshman showed his predatory instincts inside the box to put Wrexham 1-0 up, before emergency Wednesday signing Ethan Horvath handed him a second.<\/p>\n

That should have been enough for Wrexham to kick on and see out the victory, but it wasn\u2019t to be for the Red Dragons.<\/p>\n

Parkinson has still paid tribute to Moore, though, highlighting the striker\u2019s \u2018magnificent\u2019 performance in the Wrexham attack.<\/p>\n

Wrexham snapped up Moore from Sheffield United<\/a> over the summer, bringing the giant forward to the ST\u014dK Cae Ras as Parkinson\u2019s new target man.<\/p>\n

Moore was outstanding against Southampton on the opening day of the season and battled through the pain barrier to play against West Bromwich Albion last week.<\/p>\n

Now off the mark with two goals against Wednesday, Moore has earned praise from Parkinson on Wrexham\u2019s official YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

Parkinson suggested that Moore has been \u2018great\u2019 for Wrexham so far, and his first 45 minutes against Wednesday were as good as you can see from a Championship forward.<\/p>\n

Parkinson added that Moore suffered a twisted ankle, which impacted his second-half display on Saturday, but he has done enough to impress the Wrexham boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been great so far, hasn\u2019t he?\u201d said Parkinson.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst Southampton, he was unplayable, and then today, he was magnificent. In the first half, he could have scored more and had some good moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe twisted his ankle, at half time he was struggling a little bit. With hindsight, should we have brought him off? He wanted to stay on. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s made it too much worse by staying on, but clearly, he wasn\u2019t the same in that second period.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, listen, his all-round display in that first 45 minutes is as good as any striker you\u2019ll see at this level,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Kieffer Moore must be rested against Preston North End<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no let-up for Wrexham right now, as Parkinson\u2019s side are straight back into action on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Wrexham take on Preston North End in the Carabao Cup<\/a>, with a place in the third round up for grabs.<\/p>\n

Parkinson will look to freshen up his squad, and he would be wise to leave Moore out of the side.<\/p>\n

Moore picked up an injury at Southampton, fought through the pain against West Brom and then picked up an ankle knock against Sheffield Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The veteran forward needs some time to rest up before Wrexham head to Millwall next weekend, and that could pave the way for Ollie Palmer to start at Deepdale.<\/p>\n

Sam Smith and Ryan Hardie are also chasing minutes in the Wrexham side, so there is little need to risk Moore again on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham threw away a 2-0 lead to only muster a 2-2 draw against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday afternoon.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,45066,12994,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-370919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-kieffer-moore","12":"tag-phil-parkinson","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115086364762250933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370919","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=370919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}