Walsall boss Mat Sadler called upon his team to fight after they suffered their third defeat in as many games with a narrow reverse away to Salford City on Tuesday evening.
Going behind to a Fabio Borini goal with sixteen minutes of the game remaining, the Saddlers were once again unable to capitalise upon their fleeting goal-scoring opportunities, as their slump continues.
Winning just two of their last fourteen league games, Walsall remain in dire need of a return to winning ways as they have just ten games remaining in the 2025/26 campaign.
Speaking to the assembled media, Sadler admitted his team is giving itself too much to do. He said, "Notts County on Saturday was one of my favourite performances of the season, but we've come the other side of it in those key moments.
"It would be really easy to put that down to luck, and I'm not going to do that. It would be very easy to blame it on that, but for me, you have to make that luck.
"That part where a proactive run into the penalty area from their boy wins them the game, and we find that or have that tonight.
"We all love our teams to win, and there is nothing better than that winning feeling that we've tasted so often.
"We're giving ourselves too much to do in the battle that we're in, and we're letting ourselves down by not picking up points that we should do.
"While that's the case, the only way through it is not through words, but through action."
Sadler also went on to criticise the playing surface at the Peninsula Stadium before admitting the game itself was a poor one.
He added: "I thought it was a really poor game of football. The pitch was dreadful, and that's what their games have been like here for the last way month or so.
"They've had to go things their way because of the pitch. I thought, first twenty-five minutes, we played our way with that, but we just needed to play into that area of the pitch because to play football I need is very difficult.
"So, I just thought it was a poor game of football, that one moment that really came in it. We didn't defend, and that's what cost you the points."
Quotes: Express & Star, Walsall FC.