Walsall captain Mark Hughes has revealed taunts from Saddlers fans inspired the team to claim a dramatic win at Wycombe.

The skipper struck the equaliser at Adams Park, before Alex Nicholls bagged a late winner to cap an improbable turnaround and win 3-2.

By then, the Saddlers were 2-0 down to the League One’s bottom side at the break on Saturday and were booed off by their supporters, which Hughes reckons it fired up the players.

He said: “You can hear the fans singing we were a load of rubbish. We’re not deaf, we can hear it. It’s not nice and it’s always in the back of your mind.

“They came a long way and we know we couldn’t get any worse, than what we were in the first half and we knew we had to raise it.

“They’ve got to sit there and watch it so everyone has got their own opinion and once we got back into it they got right behind us.”

Hughes knew the half-time inquest from boss Chris Hutchings was expected.

He said: “The gaffer said what he had to say but we’re not soft, we knew what was coming.”