Harrison Armstrong’s 81st minute strike earned PNE the point

Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson thoroughly enjoyed his side’s battle against Preston North End on Saturday.

The two Championship sides played out a 1-1 draw at Deepdale, with Kieffer Moore breaking the deadlock on four minutes and Harrison Armstrong equalising, for PNE, nine minutes from time. The result left North End fifth in the Championship table while Wrexham ended the weekend in 12th spot.

Post-match, Chorley-born Parkinson reflected: “First of all, I think it was a great advert for Championship football, the division. But two really honest teams going for the win, committed but fair, and it was a great game of football in difficult conditions. I think both teams deserve enormous credit today.

“I think we're going toe-to-toe with teams and you can see that all the time. Of course, Preston have been in this division a long time. They've had a long time to recruit a Championship standard squad and they've got good depth in there. You can see that from the bench.

“But yeah, I don't think we could’ve asked any more from the boys today. I thought they gave us so much but I think that the real winner today was the Championship football, because there'll be people watching that game in really difficult conditions. And it's just the word, honesty, stands out to me from both sets of players.

“There's tackles going in. There's just a real fairness, a competitiveness about the game and, you know, I enjoyed watching it. I'd love to be sat here talking about a win, but to be part of that - two teams, in this modern era of football, players sometimes get criticised, highly paid players etc, etc. Today was just about pure grit and determination from both sides, with a lot of quality thrown in there as well.

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