{"id":769713,"date":"2026-02-17T05:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/769713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:16:16","slug":"wrexham-must-be-on-a-game-against-bristol-city-parkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/769713\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham must be on &#8216;A-game&#8217; against Bristol City &#8211; Parkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson says his side will need to bring their &#8220;A-game&#8221; if they are to get a result away at Bristol City on Tuesday evening (19:45 GMT).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both sides begin the day narrowly outside the Championship&#8217;s top six, and a win for either club would see them move into the play-off places.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wrexham are chasing a fifth consecutive away win for the first time since 2003, when they achieved the feat in the fourth tier of English football.<\/p>\n<p>And with hopes of a fourth-consecutive promotion in the balance, Parkinson recognised the challenge awaiting them &#8211; both on Tuesday evening and the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s where you are at the end of the season that counts,&#8221; said Parkinson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re in the mix, so are we. It is a game against another team who have been up there for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every game has got an edge to it because there are so many teams in contention, the whole division has a lot to play for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great challenge going to these established teams, but we&#8217;re concentrating on ourselves and how we keep improving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wrexham are looking to complete the double over the Robins having run out 2-0 winners in the reverse fixture at the Stok Cae Ras in November.<\/p>\n<p>A win would see Parkinson&#8217;s side climb above Derby and Preston into sixth place on 50 points.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But the Wrexham boss says that will only happen if they are at their best at Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got a lot of players who have been at this level a long time and experienced being in the top six,&#8221; Parkinson added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On their day they are very good, but we are a match for anyone. It&#8217;s the details which will separate the sides on the night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to go down there and bring our A-game. Nothing less than that will be good enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771305376_24_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson says his side will need to bring their &#8220;A-game&#8221; if they are to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,18228,748,393,4884,12994,16,15,18833],"class_list":{"0":"post-769713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-phil-parkinson","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wrexham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116084276268468570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769713","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=769713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}