WREXHAM beat Altrincham 4-0 in front of a season's best home crowd of 10,107 to stay second in the National League.

Top scorer Paul Mullin, with his 13th goal of the season in all competitions, and striker partner Ollie Partner scored in a first half dominated by Phil Parkinson's men to put the Reds 2-0 up at the break.

Palmer bagged another in the second half to make it 11 for the campaign and James Jones also struck to secure a comfortable victory which maintained the 100 per cent record at The Racecourse and keeps Wrexham three points behind leaders Notts County.

Parkinson made one change from the side that beat Halifax 3-1 in midweek with Jordan Davies, who impressed as a second half substitute and scored the second goal in the win, replacing Elliot Lee in midfield.

Lee was named among the substitutes where Bryce Hosannah and Tom O'Connor took over from Max Cleworth and Liam McAlinden who dropped out of the matchday squad.

Wrexham made the early running and Palmer's third minute header from Ben Tozer's long throw-in was saved by keeper Olive Byrne.

A misplaced Altrincham pass was seized upon by Mullin who ran at goal but couldn't keep his shot down.

Jordan Tunnicliffe headed over from Luke Young's corner as Wrexham continued the bright start.

Altrincham's defence was doing well with Wrexham were enjoying a lot of possession but Mullin wasn't far away from breaking the deadlock with a left foot drive from outside the box which only just cleared the crossbar.

But Wrexham went 1-0 up in the 32nd minute.

And what a goal if was as Mullin found the back of the net with an overhead kick from Anthony Forde's cross.

Just two minutes later and the Reds doubled their lead.

Callum McFadzean won the ball and fed Mullin who supplied a lovely lay-off to Palmer who slotted past Byrne to join his strike partner on the scoresheet.

Wrexham felt they should have been awarded a penalty when Altrincham striker Marcus Dinanga was all over Davies who went down in the area but it wasn't given.

At the other end, Mark Howard denied Chris Conn-Clarke who had Altrincham's first chance of the game but the first half belonged to Wrexham.

Altrincham also tested Howard at the start of the second half but the Reds' goalkeeper showed a safe pair of hands to claim Dinanga's effort.

Wrexham claimed Altrincham defender James Jones had handled the ball in the area but a penalty wasn't given while the visitors should have not done better at the other end with a good opportunity but Elliot Osborne failed to hit the target from Ryan Colclough's pass.

Needing to put the game to bed, Wrexham made it 3-0 in the 65th minute following superb build-up play.

Davies played in McFadzean who picks out Palmer and the striker fired home his second goal of the game.

Howard did well to tip Conn-Clarke's free-kick over the bar while Mullin volleyed wide as Wrexham pressed for more goals

The fourth goal came in the 79th minute.

A well constructed move ended with Young playing in Jones who fired home.

Substitute Lee fired over for Wrexham while Howard made a good save in added time to keep the clean sheet as Wrexham ran out comfortable winners.

Wrexham (5-3-2): Howard; Forde, Hayden, Tozer, Tunnicliffe, McFadzean; Jones, Young, Davies (O'Connor 70); Mullin (Lee 78), Palmer (Dalby 82). Subs not used: Watson, Hosannah.

Altrincham (4-2-3-1): Byrne; Barrows, James Jones, Cooper, Edward Jones; Osbourne, Lundstram; Conn-Clarke (Pringle 78), Colclough, Malone (Kaja 75); Dinanga Hulme 70). Subs not used: Gould, Jackson.

Attendance: 10,107 (285 from Altrincham).