{"id":480154,"date":"2025-10-07T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480154\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:15:12","slug":"wrexham-v-birmingham-city-hollywood-derby-rivalry-factor-not-important-says-phil-parkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480154\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham v Birmingham City: &#8216;Hollywood derby&#8217; rivalry factor not important, says Phil Parkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wrexham, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cq5jyzwq6l4t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drew 1-1 at Leicester City<\/a> on Tuesday, are still seeking their first home league win of the season after two draws and two defeats so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis O&#8217;Brien had put Wrexham ahead against Derby County last Saturday only for Ben  Brereton Diaz&#8217;s strike to deny them their first three points at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously we won in the EFL Cup against Reading and went through on penalties against Hull,&#8221; Parkinson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Derby, the game was there for us, really, and we didn&#8217;t take the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But it&#8217;s just about performance level and we&#8217;re looking at the performance against Leicester and a lot of the Derby game as well and what we need to do well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If we can bring that to the table on Friday, we&#8217;ll have a great chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham, who drew 1-1 at Leicester City on Tuesday, are still seeking their first home league win of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-480154","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\/115332364969307180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480154","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=480154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}