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Morecambe 0 Walsall 2 - George Bennett analysis

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00:00Good evening Sadler's fans. Walsall ran out 2-0 winners against Morecambe at the Mazuma

00:08Mobile Stadium earlier today thanks to goals from Taylor Allen and Jamie Jellis in the

00:16second half. Matt Sadler made two changes from the 3-1 win over Chesterfield at Bescott

00:25last weekend. Charlie Lakin was forced to drop out due to a sickness bug. Harry Williams

00:31was rested as a precaution due to the knot that he had to his knee against Chesterfield

00:37last week. That meant that Osher McEntee started on the right side of the back three with David

00:43Akagbewe sitting in the centre of the back line. Then Brandon Conley was handed his first

00:51league start of the campaign. That brought up an interesting dynamic in the midfield

00:56actually with Conley sitting deep and Jamie Jellis sort of operated between the lines

01:02as a 10. Then Ryan Sturck sometimes slotted in alongside Conley as part of a double pivot

01:10and then in transition would move up into the 8 role and the midfield worked really

01:14well today. Walsall were the stronger side in the first half without creating a great

01:21deal or testing the Morecambe goalkeeper for that matter. Morecambe did have a couple of

01:26sort of half chances in the first half. Tommy Simpkin forced into a couple of saves but

01:31not really anything strenuous. After the break the turning point came when Rhys Williams

01:39was shown a straight red card for pulling back Jamie Jellis and denying a goal scoring

01:45opportunity from that resulting free kick. Taylor Allen crashed a stunning effort in

01:51off the post from around 25 yards out for his sixth goal of the campaign. Morecambe

01:59to their credit responded well to that double setback but Walsall finished the half the

02:06much much stronger and it always felt like they were in control. Walsall had some really

02:11good chances to extend their advantage. Liam Gordon stung the palms of the Morecambe goalkeeper.

02:17Levi Amanchi who came on planted a header wide and eventually the second goal arrived

02:22when Adoma also came on in the second half, worked the ball inside from the left and Jamie

02:28Jellis managed to create a space for himself on the edge of the box and sent an unerring

02:36finish into the net so that made it back to back wins for Walsall in League 2 and it's

02:42an eight point lead for the Sadlers.