Basement side Wrexham, six points away from safety, play host to second from bottom Mansfield tomorrow at The Racecourse (3pm) in a real six-point relegation battle.

Wrexham trail Mansfield by four points but have played a game less than the Stags, and the sides will meet again at Field Mill in another crucial fixture at the start of April.

Llewellyn knows how vital the clash against the Stags is and the 28-year-old is targeting three points to enable Wrexham to keep track of the other teams, such as Macclesfield and Bury, who are also deep in trouble at the bottom.

"I suppose it is as near as they come to being a must-win game," said Llewellyn today.

"We know the importance of it and probably have to win because if Mansfield do, we are stranded a bit.

"And if we win it puts pressure on all the other teams down there. We are not just interested in second from bottom, we have to try and suck third and fourth from bottom into it and tighten it up.

"It is a big three points to play for, and Mansfield can't get any points if we get them.

"We will give it our best shot."

Wrexham's six game unbeaten run came to an end on Tuesday when they were beaten 2-0 at home by Peterborough United.

Llewellyn was pleased with the results in that unbeaten spell against teams challenging for promotion, and the Wales international said Wrexham have to follow them up during a busy March which sees the Reds face a number of other teams still battling to avoid the drop.

"We have done well in recent weeks but so have other teams," said Llewellyn. "But good performances count for nothing if you don't get the result.

"It is time to start closing the gap.

"We have played all the decent teams recently, had some good performances and only lost one game in seven.

"I think we've done well against teams at the top. Now we have to repeat those performances against teams around us, and we need to try and take all three points."

A run of three consecutive clean sheets was ended in midweek against Darren Ferguson's Peterborough who scored their two goals from well taken free-kicks.

But failure to score at the other end meant that Wrexham have now gone three games without finding the back of the net themselves.

Delighted with the improvement in defence, Llewellyn admitted that Wrexham, the lowest scorers in the division, have got to start improving in front of goal.

"We need to start scoring goals," said Llewellyn. "When the gaffer took over we were letting in silly goals, own goals and making stupid mistakes.

"But we have stopped doing those things, the defence is looking solid and the two goals we conceded the other night against Peterborough were not from open play.

"We need to be more creative going forward and be more ruthless in front of goal.

"We have been working on crossing and putting good balls into the box, and we have to take advantage of them.

"Goals need to come from all over the place."

With tomorrow's crunch encounter against Mansfield being played on St David's Day, Merthyr-born Llewellyn is hoping the patriotic Welsh in the crowd will inspire Wrexham.

"It is a big game and it is also St David's Day," added Llewellyn. "I am sure the crowd will give it all the emotion that brings and hopefully that will work in our favour."