Walsall 0-2 MK Dons: Pressure intensifies on Mat Sadler after seven-match winless run
Walsall extended their winless run to seven games after a 2-0 defeat against MK Dons at Bescot heaped further pressure on boss Mat Sadler.
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy capitalised on a poor pass from Priestley Farquharson to open the scoring for MK Dons in the 30th-minute.
Daniel Kanu forced Dons goalkeeper Craig MacGillivray into a pair of second half saves, but Jon Mellish added a second on 85 minutes to condemn Walsall to a second successive home defeat.
That extended the Saddlers' winless run on home soil to five games and saw them fall 11 points behind the automatic promotion places.
Top scorer Kanu started after recovering from illness, as Sam Hornby deputised between the sticks for the suspended Myles Roberts.
Dan Crowley came closest for the visitors during an uneventful first 29 minutes when his volley was blocked in front of goal.
But Walsall were pretty watertight defensively until an astonishing mistake from Farquharson gifted the Dons' the opener on the half-hour mark.
