IT'S been an excellent opening quarter of the season and Phil Parkinson says Wrexham will continue to evolve as a team and take injuries in their stride.

The back-to-back promotion winners, who face Charlton Athletic at The Valley tomorrow, have hit the ground running in League One and taken 24 points from 12 games to sit second in the table.

The Reds are among the frontrunners despite having to deal with a number of injuries.

Max Cleworth and George Evans are currently absent after both damaged ankle ligaments while two strikers have joined them on the sidelines.

Leading scorer Jack Marriott suffered a broken leg in training last Thursday and will be out for at least four months while Steven Fletcher is also missing with a knee problem.

Parkinson won't allow set-backs to take the gloss of an impressive start to the campaign.

"I think we would have all taken that at the start," the Reds' boss said about the points tally.

"It's a great start, the lads have done well and you have got to keep evolving as a team.

"Whether it is a bit of disruption from injuries, you have keep thinking up different formulas of different players from the bench to change things and we will have a good think before the weekend what we are going to do with the team, and pick the team we feel is ready to go into what will be a great game at Charlton."

Goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo, who enjoyed a successful loan spell with Wrexham from Arsenal last summer before making the move permanent in the summer, is playing in League One for the first time in his career.

The 23-year-old has adapted well to life in the third tier, keeping seven clean sheets and conceding just eight goals in 12 league outings, but he won't rest on his laurels.

"It is a harder league but we are just taking it game-by-game," added Okonkwo.

"I think we have done really well, we've had a really good start and we just have to keep it going."