PHIL PARKINSON is hopeful Elliot Lee’s injury is not too serious.

The playmaker was taken off after just 15 minutes of Wrexham’s opening pre-season friendly with Hanley Town at Potteries Park on Saturday due to a thigh problem.

But Parkinson, who saw his side run out 5-1 winners against the Northern Premier League Division One West outfit, is keeping his fingers crossed that Lee - voted Players’ Player of the Season in Wrexham’s 2023-24 League Two promotion campaign - will make a quick recovery.

“Elliot’s thigh was a bit tight,” said Parkinson. “It was the only negative but I don’t think that it is too serious.

“It doesn’t appear to be anything significant but in this type of game, you don’t take a risk and we just brought him off.

“We put young Harry Ashfield on and he did great.”

With star striker Paul Mullin, who underwent spinal surgery in the middle of June to correct a long-term lower-back and hamstring issue, and wing-back Jacob Mendy - another player who required an operation this summer to mend a hamstring - due to miss the start of the League One season, Parkinson didn’t take any risks for the clash with Hanley.

Tom O’Connor, Steven Fletcher, summer signing Lewis Brunt and Will Boyle have had knocks and didn’t feature on Saturday, but new signing George Dobson got his first Wrexham run-out with youngsters making up the numbers as Parkinson named different teams for each half.

“There’s a few players who weren’t at Hanley for a variety of reasons,” added Parkinson. “Nothing really serious and we will take a strong squad with us on the America tour.

“They were just little things; Tom a tight calf, Steven had a bit of an injury just before he came back in but he is back in training, although it was a bit too soon for him.

“Lewis had an ankle injury which he had conducted against us for Mansfield and he has been having his rehab; he is back on the training pitch but we felt Hanley was too soon for him.

“Will has got a bit on tendinitis, sometimes you get that in pre-season but he is back on the training pitch.

“There is no need to rush players at this stage but it was good for the younger players to get an opportunity and I thought they acquitted themselves really well.

“George did well, he has fitted in really well with the lads during his first couple of weeks with us.”