Bristol Rovers vs Walsall: Away form remains key for stalling Saddlers
Walsall continue to rely on away form to remain in the League Two promotion mix, as they travel to Bristol Rovers at the Mem Stadium tonight.
The Saddlers have registered three draws in a row, but came from two goals down to salvage a point at Chesterfield on Saturday.
As a result, Walsall dropped to seventh in the table, but maintained their four-point buffer over Chesterfield in eighth.
Their stalemate at Chesterfield felt much more like a win compared to the two score-less draws against Accrington Stanley and Crawley Town that preceded it.
Nonetheless, Walsall have collected just six points from a possible 15 since the turn of the year, which has seen them cut adrift of the automatic promotion places.
Time to translate draws into wins
They trail league leaders Bromley by 10 points - albeit with a game in hand - and sit four points behind second-place Cambridge United and three adrift of Salford City in third.
It's still extremely tight at the top end of League Two but an inability to translate draws into wins will only further hamper the Saddlers' promotion prospects.
There were positives to take from Chesterfield. Walsall failed to lay a glove on their Derbyshire hosts in the first 40 minutes but showed fight and desire to battle for a point.
Double injury doubt
Jamille Matt was forced off with a hip issue at half-time, and his replacement Albert Adomah, is also an uncertainty after going down with a knee problem.
However, Sadler said at full-time that he expects both to be "fine" ahead of the trip to Bristol.
Thirty-eight-year-old Adomah was instrumental to leading the comeback charge and scored the all-important equaliser on the hour-mark, after top scorer Daniel Kanu had halved the deficit on the cusp of half-time.
Warrington departs Walsall
Alfie Chang made his 'second debut' for the club after joining Walsall permanently until the end of the season last week.
The midfielder will be reunited with his former club Bristol Rovers where he made 19 appearances on loan during the first half of the campaign.
His arrival has prompted to sale of Lewis Warrington who left Walsall after just five months to join League Two rivals Tranmere Rovers on Sunday.
Warrington played 20 times for the Saddlers in all competitions, but had not featured in the league since a goalless draw against Notts County before Christmas.
Rovers roar back in relegation fight
Bristol Rovers have been embroiled in a relegation battle once again, after they were condemned to the drop in League One last term.
However, Steve Evans guided them to a 3-0 win over relegation rivals Newport County on Sunday to put paid to a run of three successive defeats.
Tottenham Hotspur loanee Yusuf Akhamrich scored twice on his full debut for the Gas before Swiss striker Fabrizio Cavegn put the seal on the victory late on.
That result has lifted Rovers four points clear of the bottom two although former Walsall midfielder Isaac Hutchinson was not included in the squad.
Hutchinson was recalled from his loan at Cheltenham Town earlier this month where he scored eight goals and set-up two more in 19 matches, and returned to Whaddon Road on another loan on deadline day.
Walsall won the reverse fixture 2-1 at Bescot in October and Harrison Burke made his first league appearance since then on Saturday.
Elsewhere, Barnsley loanee Kacper Lopata is set to miss his reunion with his former employers due to a thigh issue.
Harry Williams (Achilles) and Jake Hollman (hamstring) remain long-term absentees in the Walsall camp.
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