Walsall boss Mat Sadler admitted his players were disappointed following their goalless draw with Accrington Stanley at the Wham Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Going into the match on the back of a duo of encouraging wins, Sadler opted to select the same side for the third game on the bounce and was pleased with his team's overall display, though would have welcomed a scrappy goal.
Speaking to George Bennett of the Express & Star, Sadler said: "The lads are disappointed because we came here to win but we also knew it was going to be a really tough afternoon and tough in different ways to what we faced in the two games previously.
"I'm so proud of the way we mixed things up and the way we fought, scrapped, battled and gave everything.
"We left it all out on the pitch there which is all you can ask for. The first ten minutes I thought we were brilliant.
"Then maybe because we didn't get that goal, it got a little bit more scrappy but at half-time we talked about settling it down a little bit.
"But we knew we had to be relentless with our defending and I thought we were but when the chances came we just didn't take them.
"I felt like a day for a scrappy goal but we didn't quite fall the right side of that."