Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson had been among those to admit this was one of the headline fixtures for the serial promotion winners ahead of their arrival on the Championship stage.<\/p>\n
After all, back when Leicester were taking on Atletico Madrid in the last-eight of the Champions League in 2017, Wrexham were being beaten by Braintree on their way to a 13th-placed finish in the National League.<\/p>\n
Even three years ago there were still four divisions between these two sides, so you could understand why the draw was celebrated with such vigour by the travelling supporters.<\/p>\n
Of course, times have changed and Wrexham’s ability to compete this season will not be based on what has gone before.<\/p>\n
But this was more evidence that \u2013 increasingly, incrementally \u2013 Phil Parkinson’s side are getting there.<\/p>\n
There is an irony that, having signed 13 new faces for this summer, Leicester’s goalscorer Jordan James was a player Parkinson had eyed but was unable to get to the Stok Cae Ras.<\/p>\n
As beautiful as it was constructed, the goal will frustrate Wrexham with Lewis Brunt perhaps guilty of stepping in at the wrong time.<\/p>\n
But even with less of the ball, Parkinson has already got the right attitude stamped through his side to ensure they will keep going and keep creating chances.<\/p>\n
In Issa Kabore, they have a player who worries full-backs \u2013 as shown with the half-time withdrawal of Luke Thomas, who struggled against his pace.<\/p>\n
And they did not lose composure as the clock ticked down. Instead they grew in confidence as the jitters grew among a home side who failed to make more of their possession.<\/p>\n
The leveller came through O’Brien’s commitment to chase a lost cause, as well as Broadhead’s composure when the key opportunity came, keeping up Wrexham’s record of scoring in every league and cup fixture this term.<\/p>\n
It means Wrexham have picked up results at Millwall, Norwich and Leicester, proof indeed that they are settling into life in the second-tier.<\/p>\n
As a newly promoted side, Wrexham can be afforded such time to find their feet.<\/p>\n
With the pressure on Leicester to quickly return to the Premier League, Foxes fans will want more immediate signs of getting it right under Marti Cifuentes.<\/p>\n
There was plenty to be positive about \u2013 16-year-old Jeremy Monga looked a threat as one of four changes from the draw at West Brom, Harry Winks pulled the strings in midfield.<\/p>\n
But it says much that James’ goal was their only shot on target \u2013 with the full-time jeers a sign that more is expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson had been among those to admit this was one of the headline fixtures for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-479582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115330941221291720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479582","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=479582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}