Wrexham fans had a lot to say about Lewis O’Brien after the game against Leicester City on Tuesday night.
Wrexham headed to Leicester City on Tuesday night, looking to maintain their positive run of form away from home in the Championship this season.
In their last outing, Phil Parkinson’s Wrexham drew 1-1 with Derby County at the Racecourse, and remain winless at home this season.
But the Dragons went into their game at the King Power sitting 6th in the away form table, though it was the Foxes who took the lead.
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Lewis O’Brien misses golden chance for Wrexham against Leicester City
One man who’s found an unlikely vein of scoring form this season is Lewis O’Brien. O’Brien scored the goal against Derby to take his season tally to three, making him the club’s second-highest scorer in the league so far.
Going into this season, O’Brien said he wanted to score more goals at Wrexham and he’s doing just that. But the former Nottingham Forest man missed a great chance to put Wrexham in the lead.
Capitalising on a pass back, O’Brien found himself one-on-one with the Leicester City goalkeeper, bearing down on goal, but he put his effort a few yards wide of the goal.
Wrexham fans fume after Lewis O’Brien missed chance
It was a golden opportunity to score, and Wrexham’s best chance of the game by far. Given that the game was 0-0 at the time too, the context of the game would’ve been completely different if O’Brien had finished.
“This league is so ruthless. O’Brien takes his chance it’s a different game,” posted one Wrexham supporter.
Plenty of others weighed in as well. “He should be scoring there,” read one comment, as another read: “Have to put the ball in the back of the net there.”
“Not good enough. Ninety per cent of the crowd would have scored that,” one Wrexham fan even wrote.
This fan added: “O’Brien has to finish that, you don’t get gifts like that often,” as another supporter asked: “How has O’Brien missed that.”
O’Brien though later made amends. He outmuscled the much taller Jannik Vestergaard to eventually set up Broadhead for the equalising goal with 10 minutes to go.
Whilst his missed chance was a bad one, O’Brien is still on course for his best ever goals tally in a single season, with two assists to his name now as well.
“O’Brien is the man. Just all effort to make that chance,” said one Wrexham fan. “An amazing play by O’Brien against a 6’6 defender,” said another. Meanwhile, another supporter wrote: “Lewis O’Brien, that is sensational.”
Wrexham return to action against Birmingham City on Friday night.