Wrexham carefully managing Cacace after injury return

Wrexham are carefully managing Liberato Cacace following his recent return from injury.

The New Zealand international has sustained three separate injury issues since joining the Red Dragons from Italian side Empoli in the summer.

But he has featured four times since the turn of the year and netted his first goal for the club as Wrexham dumped Premier League Nottingham Forest out of the FA Cup.

Despite feeling close to his best again, the left wing-back says he will rely on the guidance of the club's medical team to ensure he does not suffer any further injury issues.

"I think I'm just being managed quite carefully this time around," he said.

"I'm looking to the medical staff, trying to build me up 60, 75 and 90 minutes.

"I feel quite good and hopefully I can go again in the next game."

Phil Parkinson's side return to action against Queens Park Rangers in west London on Saturday (15:00 GMT) having played three successive matches on home soil.

QPR won the reverse fixture 3-1 in mid-September, although Cacace feels Wrexham can be far more competitive this weekend having significantly improved since that contest in north Wales.

"They're also a quality side, they're up there as well on the ladder," said Cacace of QPR.

"If you look back at the game they played here against us, they beat us, so we're looking to turn that around and get three points against them."

The 25-year-old defender said his own club have "come on leaps and bounds since that game".

"You can obviously see that, and the expectations also change, so we're hoping to go there and get three points," he added.

"To be in ninth place, it's in touching distance of the top six and we just need to make sure that we keep building game by game to get that end goal I guess."