Walsall boss Mat Sadler admitted his team were a 'little too causal' as they narrowly defeated ten-man Barnet at the Hive Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Going into the match on the back of two defeats in as many games, the Saddlers opened the scoring with just two minutes on the clock as Connor Barrett bagged his second goal of the season.
Adding a second goal twenty-minutes later as Aaron Pressley scored his first goal since making the move from Stevenage, the Saddlers were given something to think about five-minutes before the break as Ollie Hawkins netted for the home side.
Speaking to the assembled media, Sadler said: "We turned it into a game that it didn't need to be.
"Firstly, we started brilliantly in the way that we thought we would hurt them on the transition.
"It was a fantastically worked goal. Charlie did brilliantly, and then Connor got into the positions that we want him to be getting into.
"The only criticism from that first half was we were maybe a little bit too casual when we got ourselves into a really good place.
"I thought we could've hurt them more, and I felt there was more there for us in that first half."
The Bees were reduced to ten men in the second-half when Nnmandi Ofoborh was shown a second yellow card for a foul on Barrett, and Sadler felt his team could have taken the game to their opponents a little more.
He continued: "That was the frustration that we didn't quite show that ruthlessness to take the game completely out of the way, which we spoke about at half-time, and we were disappointed with the goal.
"Going into the second half, the sending off probably did the opposite for us and galvanised them a little bit.
"It allowed them to be a little bit different in their approach and be more direct into the front. We needed to show a little bit more composure then.
"I just told the lads then that this game had a very different story that could've been told from it, so credit to them for making sure that didn't happen."
Quotes: Express & Star.