\n The Reds go into the game with a number of players out injured including wing-backs Issa Kabore and Libby Cacace, centre-back Lewis Brunt, midfield duo Lewis O’Brien and Elliot Lee, and striker Ryan Hardie.\n<\/p>\n
\n Captain James McClean begins a three-game ban after he was charged following an off-the-ball incident in last Friday’s 2-1 defeat away to Swansea City while goalkeeper Danny Ward and midfielder Andy Cannon. left out of the 25-man squad submitted to the EFL for the first half of the season due to injuries, are making good progress but aren’t eligible to feature until January 1.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wrexham met United in two pulsating FA Cup fourth round ties in 2022-23, with the Blades scoring a late equaliser to draw 3-3 at The Racecourse to force a replay which they eventually won 3-1.\n<\/p>\n
\n Parkinson felt his side’s battling qualities were on show in those matches and he wants more of the same today.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We have had some exciting games against Sheffield United over the years, most notably the two in the FA Cup,” said the Reds’ boss, who also saw his side lose 4-2 at Bramall Lane when the teams met in a League Cup first round tie last season.\n<\/p>\n
\n “In the first game, we lost two defenders and were a goal down in the first 10 minutes.\n<\/p>\n
\n “But that adversity, the way we fought back that day was a real benchmark performance for us at the time in where we were in our development.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was a great game and then we went to their place and ran them so close.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We want to see that Wrexham spirit over this Christmas period from the players, staff and supporters alike. It is about pulling together.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Jay Rodriguez could feature against United after he replaced Lee, who is currently sidelined after undergoing knee surgery, in the registered squad.\n<\/p>\n
\n The striker was left out of the squad due to a stress fracture of the foot but is back in full training and would have been able to play from January 1 anyway but is now in line to make his first appearance of the season when the Blades head to north Wales.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Because of the injuries we have got and the depleted numbers. it has been great to add Jay back into the squad,” added Parkinson.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He comes back into it on January 1 anyway but with the injuries we have got, we were down to the bare 20 players really.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Elliot is a bit behind the others and won’t be fit for a few weeks yet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds go into the game with a number of players out injured including wing-backs Issa Kabore and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-655356","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-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115784393812592812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655356","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=655356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}