Wrexham Climbs Into Championship Playoff Spot After Dramatic Win

[ad_1] Wrexham's bid for a fourth straight promotion and a spot within the Premier League is gaining steam.

A dramatic 3-2 win at Queens Park Rangers — courtesy of two stoppage-time targets — lifted Wrexham, the Welsh membership co-owned by Hollywood celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, into sixth place within the second-tier Championship on Saturday.

The highest-two finishers safe automated promotion and the groups who end third to sixth will qualify for the end-of-season playoffs for the one additional promotion spot.

It is the primary time this season that Wrexham has ended a spherical within the playoff locations.

Wrexham has performed 29 of its 46 video games in its first second-tier marketing campaign for the reason that Nineteen Eighties following an unprecedented three straight promotions. Its surge up the English soccer pyramid, fueled by the money injection by Reynolds and McElhenney since shopping for the membership in 2020 and documented within the Emmy-winning "Welcome to Wrexham" TV collection, started in 2022 with promotion from the non-league fifth division.

The most recent win got here after Josh Windass equalized within the third minute of stoppage time and Ollie Rathbone grabbed the winner a minute later at Loftus Street.

Windass was one of many 13 gamers who got here to the membership as a part of an estimated spending spree of round $40 million in the summertime switch window, throughout which Wrexham repeatedly broke its switch report.

The cash accessible for transfers has been boosted by Reynolds and McElhenney securing exterior monetary funding by means of, amongst others, the New York-based Allyn household.

Wrexham are additionally having a superb run within the FA Cup, having made it to the final 32 by beating Premier League workforce Nottingham Forest in a penalty shootout within the third spherical.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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