Phil Parkinson bemoaned his team's lack of ruthlessness – and the amount of stoppage time at the end of the game – after a 98th-minute equaliser denied Wrexham a Welsh derby victory over Cardiff City.
Parkinson's side were on course to begin the new Championship campaign with a hard-fought win after Kieffer Moore's third-minute goal at the Cardiff City Stadium.
Wrexham missed chances to extend their lead – and twice hit the woodwork – on a night when they carried greater threat than their hosts only to be denied a win when Rubin Colwill smashed in a free-kick in the last act of the game.
"We've had chances to kill the game off. We haven't taken them, the keeper's made saves, but we haven't really made him make a top-class save," Parkinson said.
"We knew we could give Cardiff problems and time and time again we did. Really in the cold light of day, the game should have been out of sight, but it wasn't."
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While Parkinson suggested Wrexham could have managed the closing stages of the match better, there was frustration over the timing of Cardiff's goal.
The fourth official's board showed six minutes of added time, with George Dobson fouling Joel Colwill in the last seconds of that period before Rubin Colwill seized the chance to equalise.
"I'm not quite sure where they got six minutes from - I'm looking forward to asking [the officials about] that," Parkinson said.
"However, giving cheap free-kicks away at this level, you can get punished and that's what cost us tonight.
"All we had to do was stay calm in that moment and we'd be talking about three points."
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