July 12, 2025
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Luke Young’s deflected first-half goal for Wrexham was cancelled out by Mo Faal’s first goal for Rovers, briefly shifting the game’s momentum in the visitors’ favor after the restart.

However, Rovers at the bottom of the standings were unable to challenge, as Elliot Lee’s goal in the 88th minute handed McCann’s team its fifth loss in seven League Two games.

Rovers’ manager admitted after the game that his team lacked a killer instinct and that he needed to “get that sort of arrogance out of them.”
McCann remarked, “I feel really, really angry.” “Gutted. Disappointed.

“I do not believe we deserved to lose the game, but when certain things are not done, you inevitably do, it is apparent.

“Our strategy was to keep people away from us, but we allowed individuals in so they could shoot.

“That led to the second goal, and for the first, we simply switched off and allowed him to take a shot from the edge of the box.

“Credit to us, I think we played some terrific football tonight, in terms of what we are trying to do.

“We did not generate enough chances. We gave them opportunities to surprise us by delivering poorly or making poor choices in the closing third.

“Unfortunately, however, we currently appear to be more of a nearly-team.

We are good-looking, but we do not finish off teams, and that makes me incredibly unhappy because that is not what my teams are about.

In the second half, when we scored the goal, we sat down a bit deeper and lacked the killer instinct, he continued: “We came here with a plan to press and get after them.

“That is something we need to incorporate into this group because I do not believe we already do.

“I believe that today is a learning day for us. We have visited a team that is regarded as being at the top, and I believed we were more than a match for them in every way.

“We do not have enough murderers there—players who genuinely, truly want to win the game.

“We have good characters, but I need to knock the conceit out of them. Right now, we do not have enough of it

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