Wrexham 2-0 AFC Wimbledon: Steven Fletcher and Paul Mullin goals boost hosts' promotion bid

Wrexham will be hoping to complete the double over Welsh rivals Newport County when they go to Rodney Parade on Saturday, 20 January

Steven Fletcher and Paul Mullin struck as Wrexham boosted their hopes of automatic promotion with a win over play-off hopefuls AFC Wimbledon.

The visitors had the better of the opening period, but Fletcher broke the deadlock midway through the second half with a superb volley at the far post from James McClean's corner.

McClean also sent in the cross that gave Mullin the chance to hammer home.

Wrexham rose a place to second while Wimbledon dropped three to 10th.

Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson:

"I thought we lacked urgency in the first half. It was almost a feeling of this will just take care of itself, but everybody knows in football you have got to make it happen as a team.

"We didn't quite get our press right and we have to work on that, but we worked hard enough to make sure it was 0-0 at half-time.

"Then second half I thought we responded really well. Sometimes when you are not at your fluent best, a set-play changes the flow of the game.

"It was a hard game, we knew it would be. We had to work hard today. We said it half-time we needed to up our game in certain areas and when we did that, it looked like we were the team who could go on and win the game."