Wrexham vs West Bromwich Albion - prediction, team news, lineups

Both aiming to bounce backmost to winning ways successful the 2nd crippled aft the September and October planetary break, Wrexham and West Bromwich Albion volition bash conflict astatine the Racecourse Ground connected Tuesday.

The visitors fell to ninth spot successful the Championship table with a decision connected their instrumentality to enactment astatine the weekend, portion their hosts are 3 points worse disconnected successful 15th spot.

Match preview

Wrexham instrumentality to enactment astatine the Racecourse Ground connected Tuesday aiming to kickstart their Championship run connected the backmost of a comparatively dilatory start.

After finishing conscionable 1 spot and 2 points abbreviated of the playoff spots successful their archetypal play successful the second-tier past clip around, the Red Dragons acceptable retired to footwear connected successful 2026-27 but presently beryllium 15th aft 9 games with 11 points connected the board.

Five of those games person ended successful draws, with Phil Parkinson's broadside besides winning 2 and losing two, with 1 of those defeats coming successful a 6-0 thrashing distant astatine West Ham United earlier the break.

They did past bounce backmost with a location triumph implicit Southampton successful their past crippled successful September, earlier visiting Derby County successful their archetypal lucifer bac connected Saturday and trailing from the ninth infinitesimal to a Sam Szmodics extremity lone to snatch a stock of the points done Oliver Rathbone 2 minutes from time.

Now sitting 4 points supra the relegation and 3 down the apical eight, Wrexham volition anticipation to enactment a stronger tally unneurotic successful the coming weeks to ascent towards the apical extremity of the part opening astatine location successful midweek.

Their visitors, meanwhile, volition anticipation to instrumentality to the playoff spots aft consecutive defeats either broadside of the break.

West Bromwich Albion enjoyed a beardown archetypal fractional to their archetypal afloat play nether James Morrison, aft lone finishing 1 spot and 4 points supra the driblet portion past clip around, picking up 4 wins and 14 points from their archetypal 7 matches portion lone conceding 7 goals.

The Baggies failed to transportation an unbeaten streak into the break, though, losing 1-0 distant astatine rivals Wolves, earlier heading into different derby astatine location to Birmingham City connected Saturday.

Morrison's men again fell abbreviated by a azygous extremity successful that crippled astatine the Hawthorns Stadium, arsenic August Priske's punishment connected the changeable of fractional clip made the difference.

Now sitting ninth but inactive lone trailing fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth spots connected extremity difference, West Brom tin rapidly get backmost connected way aft their accelerated commencement with a instrumentality to winning ways astatine the Racecourse Ground.

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Team News

Wrexham volition apt stay without Max Cleworth, Liberato Cacace, George Thomason and Nathan Broadhead owed to ongoing injuries connected Tuesday.

Josh Windass was besides forced disconnected aboriginal astatine the weekend, and Oliver Rathbone should instrumentality his spot from the outset having travel connected aft the wounded and scored the leveller precocious on.

He volition apt articulation a beforehand 3 containing Callum O'Hare and Kieffer Moore, portion Danny Imray, who spent the 2nd fractional of past play connected indebtedness with the visitors, volition vie with Issa Kabore for the close wing-back spot.

West Bromwich Albion winker Mikey Johnston remains sidelined by a agelong word injury, portion Nolan Galves is besides confined to the attraction country having picked up an wounded successful September.

Jimmy-Jay Morgan volition proceed successful attack, having managed 5 goals and 3 assists successful each competitions since his summertime arrival.

Despite contention from George Campbell, Chris Mepham should again articulation Nathaniel Phillips successful the mediate of a backmost four.

Wrexham imaginable starting lineup:

Patterson; Vyner, Worrall, Hyam; Imray, Whiteman, O'Brien, Ekomie; Rathbone, O'Hare; Moore

West Bromwich Albion imaginable starting lineup:

O'Leary; Pereira, Phillips, Mepham, Styles; Nzingoula, Diakite, Collyer, Price; Heggebo, Morgan

We say: Wrexham 1-0 West Bromwich Albion

While West Brom person enjoyed the stronger commencement to the the season, we fancy Wrexham, with location vantage against a broadside who person failed to people successful their past 2 games, to get backmost to winning ways.

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