{"id":145442,"date":"2024-01-30T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/30\/parkinson-admits-dragons-couldnt-handle-red-hot-rovers-strikers\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:28:45","slug":"parkinson-admits-dragons-couldnt-handle-red-hot-rovers-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/30\/parkinson-admits-dragons-couldnt-handle-red-hot-rovers-strikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson admits Dragons couldn\u2019t handle red-hot Rovers strikers \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Phil Parkinson admits Blackburn taught Wrexham a lesson in their 4-1 FA Cup triumph.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons took the lead through an Andy Cannon strike but in-form Sammie Szmodics\u2019 two goals on either side of a Sam Gallagher effort made it 3-1 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Sondre Tronstad completed the rout after 59 minutes but Parkinson was proud of the League Two side for making it this far.<\/p>\n<p>He told BBC Match of the Day: \u201cFirst five or 10 minutes I thought we started a bit edgy then we grew into the game and got the goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had another great chance to make it 2-0. Then they\u2019ve scored a good goal, deflected, but it\u2019s still a good move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were up against a good side with two strikers who are right at the top of their game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great lesson for us. Against better quality players, you\u2019ve got to be switched on all the time or you get punished, and they punished us tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had some terrific days in the cup, Shrewsbury away, Mansfield away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday wasn\u2019t the night for us, but we\u2019ll regroup and we\u2019ll concentrate on a terrific second part of the season in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Szmodics fully deserved his two goals and is ready to take on Newcastle in the fifth round.<\/p>\n<p>He told BBC One Wales: \u201cWe thoroughly deserved the win tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWrexham are a tough team and we had to be aware of their strengths and qualities but we managed that really well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChuffed to get through and into the next round, looking forward to Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel like we can beat anyone here on our day, there was great support from both fans and fair play to the Wrexham fans, they didn\u2019t stop singing all night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully we can take this back into the Championship, I think with the win and the performance it will only help us in doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LiveScore: Live Sport Updates<\/h3>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Parkinson admits Blackburn taught Wrexham a lesson in their 4-1 FA Cup triumph. The Dragons took the lead through an Andy Cannon strike but in-form Sammie Szmodics\u2019 two goals on either side of a Sam Gallagher effort made it 3-1 at the break. Sondre Tronstad completed the rout after 59 minutes but Parkinson was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parkinson admits Dragons couldn\u2019t handle red-hot Rovers strikers \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/30\/parkinson-admits-dragons-couldnt-handle-red-hot-rovers-strikers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parkinson admits Dragons couldn\u2019t handle red-hot Rovers strikers \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Phil Parkinson admits Blackburn taught Wrexham a lesson in their 4-1 FA Cup triumph. 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