O'Driscoll tells Walsall to learn from loss
Walsall boss Sean O'Driscoll admitted he didn't know whether to praise his players or give them a rollocking after they were beaten 2-1 at home by Wigan.
Substitute Yanic Wildschut's 90th minute strike earned the Latics all three points at the Banks's Stadium.
It lifting them over the Saddlers and up to second in the League One table, but O'Driscoll felt there were still positives to take from the game.
He said: "To get beaten in the last second, I'm not going to throw the baby out with the dishwater just because of that. We have to learn from it.
"Sometimes I don't know whether to praise them (the players) or give them rollicking, just because I feel we have to do things quicker.
"We get frustrated because this is what we want to do but the other team are stopping us. That is what other teams do. We are fighting for something and so are they."
Wigan dominated large portions of the game and took the lead six minutes before half-time, when Conor McAleny fired home from 25 yards.
But, after Sam Mantom had hauled the hosts level with a long-range thunderbolt of his own, it was they who looked the most likely winners before Wildschut's late heroics.
O'Driscoll said: "I think we expected a difficult gave as it was. We struggled, especially in the first half, to find a way to get fluid.
"Credit to them, they had an extra man in midfield and pushed the two wide men up. Tactically, it was a chess match.
"They scored with a worldy. Regardless of the scoreline at half-time we needed to find a way of causing them problems which we did in the second half.
"We opened the game up better and got the ball forward in better areas. It really looked like it would be us going on to win it before another fine strike in the last few seconds gives them the win.
"It is disappointing but you have to learn from everything and I think the players can take the credit for adapting. It was not an easy game to play in."
