Wrexham will 'take a deep breath' ahead of busy week

Manager Phil Parkinson says he will be utilising Wrexham's squad as they face three games in a space of a week.

Wrexham lost 2-1 to Leyton Orient in midweek - their second successive home league defeat of the season.

Parkinson's side are at Mansfield Town in League One on Sunday, host Peterborough in the EFL Trophy semi-final on Wednesday and Bolton Wanderers are visitors in the league next Saturday.

"Everybody in the squad is capable of coming into the team and playing," Parkinson said.

"Everybody can make a contribution and everybody's going to be needed in this run.

"I think it's important for the lads not to get too disappointed if they don't play or are not involved because that's the nature of the squad.

"We've got a lot of options and we're going to assess everything, like we always do, on a day-to-day basis."

Parkinson, following the home defeat to Leyton Orient, suggested League One was "as strong as its ever been."

"We've got to make sure we play like a top end League One team to win games," Parkinson told BBC Sport Wales.

"There were traits in our game on Tuesday of a team from a lower division.

"We've shown this season that we can compete at the top end of this division.

"But you obviously need players at the peak of their game and individually and collectively for the performance to be better.

"[League One] is very competitive every game – we've had to progress very quickly as a club and standards have to be high every week to win games.

"Interestingly for us in the Orient game our physical data for running was our highest of the season.

"So it wasn't a physical, more making the right decisions on the ball at times and working angles quicker so we could play forward and be more progressive in our play.

"You can't be at 70-80% and three quarters of the players not quite where they're meant to be or you don't get results.

"We need to now take a deep breath and go into this week knowing we're going to be changing the team around."