Dean Smith: I can't fault my Walsall side

Manager Dean Smith insisted he could not fault Walsall's players despite their run without a goal stretching to four games at Peterborough.

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The Saddlers played out their second 0-0 in four days, as they failed to take advantage of some good opportunities at London Road.

Smith was again happy with the overall performance but left wondering how his side had failed to score.

He said: "It was very frustrating, wasn't it? I thought we were in total control, apart from a 10-minute spell in the second-half.

"We played some really good stuff on a slow bobbly pitch but that final end product is just missing, at the moment.

"The last two games you wonder how (we haven't scored) but it is what it is and you've just got to keep moving forward.

"We'll take a lot of belief from the way we are playing and it's not as if we're not creating chances at the moment, we've just not got the quality in the final third."

Jordan Cook brought a save from home goalkeeper Ben Alnwick, while Michael Cain went close on several occasions.

And Smith added: "Michael Cain's had four or five shots on his own today and a couple of them were very close. So we just keep battling on."

The Saddlers are now just two points above the relegation zone, despite moving up a place to 15th.

Smith said: "We could have been well away from it but 'could've, should've' doesn't do anything.

"It's the same with the last three home performances – we could have picked up maximum points from those three in Milton Keynes Dons, Sheffield United and Notts County. But we haven't.

"It looked like two teams who haven't scored for a while today. They've only scored one in their last four or five as well and it just wasn't to be."