{"id":660167,"date":"2025-10-03T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=660167"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:06:00","slug":"wrexham-predicted-lineup-vs-birmingham-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/10\/03\/wrexham-predicted-lineup-vs-birmingham-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham Predicted Lineup vs Birmingham for October 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Wrexham predicted lineup for their EFL Championship clash with Birmingham.\u00a0 The clash is taking place in the unusual Friday slot as there is a lot of American interest in this one. The two sides are owned in part by well known Americans, the Dragons having Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, while their opponents have Tom Brady representing them. Let’s see how they’re going to lineup for this mid-table match.<\/p>\n

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Wrexham Predicted Lineup vs Birmingham for EFL Championship Tie<\/h2>\n

How Wrexham Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n

Arthur Okonkwo has taken over as the first-choice goalkeeper due to Danny Ward’s unavailability, this has allowed Callum Burton to start as the rotational option in goal. The centre-back trio changes with Lewis Brunt, Callum Doyle, and Dan Scarr as one option. While Brunt, Max Cleworth, and Dominic Hyam has become the other with Conor Coady being worked back in.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Longman and Issa Kabore are the favoured wing-backs at the moment with James McClean capable of coming in and putting in a shift with Ryan Barnett the other rest option until Liberato Cacace can find fitness.<\/p>\n

Ben Sheaf, George Dobson, Lewis O’Brien, George Thomason, Elliot Lee, and Matty James are rotating in midfield, with the manager aiming to keep each unit consistent as he rotates. Up front, Kieffer Moore has been supported by Josh Windass. Sam Smith and Nathan Broadhead are the other options.<\/p>\n

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Wrexham Recent Form & Tactics<\/h3>\n

Phil Parkinson sets up in a back five with three central midfielders and either two up front or one striker with a player supporting to pick up the second ball. They’re very comfortable playing without the ball and look to get attempts away on goal without worrying too much about controlling possession. This can lead to situations like their last match where they had 32% of the ball and only managed one shot on target from nine attempts.<\/p>\n

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Their form remains inconsistent with two wins, two draws, and a defeat in their last five fixtures. They don’t keep many clean sheets and can on occassion let in a number of goals but their attacking unit always finds a way to nab a goal as they’ve scored in every single fixture in this campaign. They are in the mid-table mire currently but the trajectory does indicate they’re on an upward swing.<\/p>\n

Wrexham Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n

According to Besoccer<\/a>, there are five different names sidelined. Jay Rodriguez, Andy Cannon, and Oliver Rathbone have not been mentioned yet but all three are unavailable. The other two are Ward and Cacace whose absences have caused some changes to the starting group.<\/p>\n

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Wrexham Predicted Lineup vs Birmingham City<\/h3>\n

With this being the third match in the space of a week there will have to be rotation. Manager Phil Parkinson opted for the same eleven against Derby County and Leicester City which indicates we will see wholesale changes for this one with the secondary units coming in.<\/p>\n

GK – Callum Burton<\/p>\n

CB – Lewis Brunt<\/p>\n

CB – Dan Scarr<\/p>\n

CB – Callum Doyle<\/p>\n

WB – Ryan Barnett<\/p>\n

CM – Matty James<\/p>\n

CM – George Thomason<\/p>\n

CM – Elliot Lee<\/p>\n

WB – James McClean<\/p>\n

ST – Nathan Broadhead<\/p>\n

ST – Sam Smith<\/p>\n

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This is a Wrexham predicted lineup for their EFL Championship clash with Birmingham.\u00a0 The clash is taking place in the unusual Friday slot as there is a lot of American interest in this one. The two sides are owned in part by well known Americans, the Dragons having Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, while their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":660172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1831,33,32],"tags":[1318,3055],"class_list":["post-660167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-championship","category-league-football","tag-birmingham-city","tag-wrexham"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660169,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660167\/revisions\/660169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}