PHIL PARKINSON felt Wrexham could have won by a bigger margin against Shrewsbury Town in Saturday's cross-border derby at The Racecourse.

Wrexham beat their arch rivals 3-0 to maintain the unbeaten start to the season, taking 13 points from a possible 15.

With a number of fixtures in the third tier postponed because of international call-ups, the Reds capitalised and took over at the summit from Stockport County who weren't in action.

Ollie Palmer and Elliot Lee scored to put Parkinson's men in control at the break and leading scorer Jack Marriott completed the scoring on the hour mark.

With more chances going begging in the second half, Parkinson says his side could have secured an even bigger win.

"I thought it was a really good performance from us," said Parkinson.

"Everything we wanted; intensity with and without the ball, we switched the play well, got our wing-backs in some great positions and the first goal typified everything we thought could happen.

"Elliot Lee in that little pocket and feeding James McClean where we felt the right-back played narrow for them and when something comes off like that we have spoke about and the lads execute it, it is very rewarding.

"For nearly all the game we were dominant. There was a period after that first goal where we gave too many free-kicks away and invited the ball into our box.

"But once we came through that period, I thought we were excellent; we went onto get that second goal.

"We should have scored more towards the end of the game, but we didn’t, and 3-0 at home is a good solid win for us against a team who have come into it off the back of a great win last week (over Leyton Orient)."