Wrexham’s rude welcoming to the Championship: Hard lessons arrive in dramatic, painful loss at Southampton

Southampton, England – Welcome to the large competitions, Wrexham. This is not what you got used to. As a season opener, this sowed all the seeds that should bloom over the upcoming episodes/games. The stars of the screen were brave; They gave everything and let their supporters believe again. This time, however, it might not be enough.

These early scenes came with a lesson that the audience, the hierarchy and especially the players have to remove. You can defend with the same VIM that made you a power in the lower competitions, all flick-ons halfway that brought you to the championship, but someone can still stick the balls off the ball and spoil your big day.

Of course it is worth explaining from the start that more than an hour of leading Southampton, probably the biggest animals in the championship, would have been an unimaginable sensation for Wrexham supporters on the day Reyan Reynolds and Rob Mac Mac changed? Is that a bit? Is that a bit? Like when Mac bought Season Seven in Sunny Season? On the day, if you offered someone at the racecourse the chance to be defeated by two late Southampton goals, they would certainly assume that something had gone very, very much in St. Mary’s before they imagined what would have gone well for them.

Still, if we approach Wrexham as a football club instead of as a capacity vehicle, on Saturday a clear sign of the work that should be done, regardless of that they were more than a moment above the championship under the radiant south coast sun. Ronnie Edwards’ clumsiness who pursued a flick-on, handed the Red Dragons their first goal in the second layer for 43 years, and there were more than the occasional flash that even the best championships could be discomfort.

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Phil Parkinson has not adjusted his approach to life in the second layer; Wrexham is going to play to win the ball in the air and first go to the Flick-Als. When Kieffer Moore rises the highest, there is no easy answer, especially for a team like Southampton that is perfectly prepared to put their middle ridges near the half line and defend from there. If Gavin Bazunu had not hurled a left glove in the direction of Ryan Hardie’s late effort, this would have been one of those unimaginable days for the traveling Wrexham believers.

There is much to admire in the Spirit Parkinson’s, this has brought in and changing the constantly changing team. When the ball comes close, they are aggressive in the tackle. Matty James spent most of the 40th minute committing a series of mistakes inside and just outside his penalty area. They are also organized. There are players like Lewis O’BrienConor coady and Moore who can make their game plan at this level relatively effective.

However, Wrexham is also a team that will learn a number of hard lessons at this level. Few players in competitions one or two constantly make runs just as intelligent as those of Southampton’s Front Three, even in a rather abject first half of the hosts. Ryan Fraser cuts elegant from the right flank to the space between the middle and right middle back only to see himself denying themselves from a tight corner through the excellent Danny Ward. Jay Robinson was also a handful.

Sometimes it seemed that Reynolds and Mac had invested in a plot armor for their goal, together with everything else. When Ward was defeated by Robinson late in the first half, but the ball hit the post, coady somehow searched to block Adam Armstrong On the rebound not once but twice. If Wrexham is once in the Premier League, they must accept that hand-first blocks such as Max Cleworth’s call back to deny Shea Charles.

Wrexham was able to survive these pressure moments in the lower competitions. Their defenders were better than the attackers of the other team. That will not be true anywhere in the championship. Even if Parkinson’s does not want to change his education or approach, he must ensure that his team does not allow them to give Southampton on the ball in the attacking third in the area of the same time. Sometimes their organization seemed to be a mistake, defenders who did not want to leave their zone to deal with the opponent. If you give up 26 shots worth three and a half expected goals, something is very wrong, regardless of the context of the game.

The high -quality chances had not gone in Southampton, but they had a player of sufficient quality to use one of the lower probability look. Wrexham had driven happiness for 89 minutes, but there was nothing to break their way when Ryan Manning was 30 meters from the goal on a free kick. In such circumstances, it is rarely or never the case that the team that has been beaten in the corner can get out of the mat again.

Still’s side continued to stretch the piece and pulled Wrexham’s 5-4-1 to the extreme while they flew to the name rule. Manning won the kind of ball over the top that the Red Dragons cannot afford to lose at any time in this season, and this time there was nobody in yellow and green to cut out his cross. Damion Downs should have converted it; Jack Stephens did it.

If nothing else, this will all provide great content for the next season of the Wrexham project. What could be more effective for the expectations of the public than bruises, dramatic but in the end a defeat earned? What the owners, Parkinson’s and everyone else connected to Wrexham do not want this to determine the scene for the next 10 months.