Under-pressure Walsall head coach Mat Sadler says he will keep "fighting and believing" that he can get the club's stuttering promotion bid back on track despite another poor result at home. Monday's 2-0 defeat by MK Dons extended the Saddlers' winless run at the Pallet-Track Bescot Stadium to five games and their overall sequence without a victory to seven. The result further dented the former League Two leaders' play-off aspirations, with the club three points behind seventh-placed Chesterfield, albeit with a game in hand on the Spireites. "When you're going through these spells, the only way out of them is being brave and at the moment we're falling the other side of that. We can accept that 'it's going to be difficult at home and we're not enjoying it' or we can do something about it."

Source: BBC February 24, 2026 13:30 UTC