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Wrexham are away to another side relegated from the Premier League, leaders West Ham United, on Friday evening (20:00 BST).

There are doubts over the availability of Max Cleworth and Josh Windass after injuries against Burnley, but Parkinson is hopeful the blows are not too serious.

Defender Cleworth came off after half an hour while forward Windass did not come back out for for the second half.

“Max looks like his hamstring’s tightened up and Josh got a kick on the calf,” Parkinson added.

“[Max] he felt it early in the half actually and we kept saying to him ‘are you alright’ and he wanted to stay on. I don’t think it’s too serious, but we’ll see.

“Josh had got a whack on the calf and when you’ve made one sub in the first period, you’ve only got then two entries in the second period.

“He probably could have gone out and tried it, but we just decided to make the change then.”

Phil Parkinson bemoaned his team’s lack of ruthlessness – and the amount of stoppage time at the end of the game – after a 98th-minute equaliser denied Wrexham a Welsh derby victory at Cardiff City.

Parkinson’s side were on course to begin the new Championship campaign with a hard-fought win after Kieffer Moore’s third-minute goal at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Wrexham missed chances to extend their lead – and twice hit the woodwork – on a night when they carried greater threat than their hosts only to be denied a win when Rubin Colwill smashed in a free-kick in the last act of the game.

“We’ve had chances to kill the game off. We haven’t taken them, the keeper’s made saves, but we haven’t really made him make a top-class save,” Parkinson said.

“We knew we could give Cardiff problems and time and time again. We did and really in the cold light of day, the game should have been out of sight, but it wasn’t.”

While Parkinson suggested his side could have managed the closing minutes of the game better, there was frustration over the timing of Cardiff’s goal.

The fourth official’s board showed six minutes of added time, with George Dobson fouling Joel Colwill in the last of those minutes before Rubin Colwill seized the chance to equalise.

“I’m not quite sure where they got six minutes from – I’m looking forward to asking [the officials about] that,” Parkinson said.

“However, giving cheap free-kicks away at this level, you can get punished and that’s what cost us tonight.

“All we had to do was stay calm in that moment and we’d be talking about three points.”