‘Hungry teams so keen to beat us’
WREXHAM midfielder Andy Cannon has warned that opposition teams will try and find an “extra five per cent” to wreck the club’s promotion hopes.
The global fame the Red Dragons have acquired following the Hollywood takeover by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney has inevitably led to a target on their backs in the EFL’s bottom tier this term.
Their final four contests will see meetings against play-off hopefuls Crawley and Crewe sandwich a game versus relegation-threatened Forest Green before the regular campaign is concluded with a potential winnertakes-all clash at home to current league leaders Stockport.
A quartet with incentive enough, then, to derail Wrexham’s back-to-back promotion bid.
But, having missed out on a chance to establish a fivepoint automatic promotion cushion following Tuesday night’s 1-0 loss to mid-table Doncaster, Cannon is wary of the perfor mance boosts he has witnessed from sides throughout 2023-24.
Doncaster’s highest gate of the season – 10,537 – turned up in midweek and Cannon reasoned: “We have some very good players in our squad and, everywhere we go, the home teams seem to get their highest attendance of the season. It does feel that a lot of teams are gunning for us and it adds an extra five per cent to their games.
“You can feel that on the pitch – 100 per cent. They are trying extra hard to beat us.
“People often think that certain games will be comfortable, but we will need to work hard and stay relaxed to get the results we need, because we’re at a stage of the season where it’s crunch time and you get unexpected results.
“Every game will be tough. Nobody will roll over, so we’ve got to be mentally strong and, then, I believe we have the quality to see us through.”
Given that galvanising factor on host teams when Wrexham are on the road, Cannon is pleased three of the club’s final four fixtures will take place at the Racecourse Ground, where Crawley and Forest Green visit before that enticing showdown with Stockport.
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