Overview
- The match on Friday saw Phil Neumann score two headed goals from set plays to earn Birmingham a 2-1 victory at the Racecourse Ground and end their winless league start.
- Chris Davies credited summer set-piece work and the club’s specialist coach for the goals, saying rehearsed corners and crosses have become “a really good weapon.”
- Birmingham’s win also eased pressure on Davies after a 6-1 Carabao Cup defeat to Brentford days earlier, giving the manager a timely positive response on the pitch.
- Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson called Neumann’s strikes “two of the softest goals” he has conceded, and said the club need to sign a central defender and a forward before the window shuts.
- Wrexham’s problems at the back are part of a longer trend — they conceded around 65 league goals last season — and the result increases the urgency for recruitment and defensive fixes ahead of their trip to Millwall.