Leg two: the promotion competition nobody wants to win
Walsall is not the only team that falters at the top of the Two League with eight of the sides in the promotion dispute that fight for consistency.
Only three teams competing to go up or do the play -offs are in the top 10 of the table from shape based on the last six games: Bradford, Colchester and Doncaster, although Rovers, who are fifth, are without victories in the last three (D2 L1).
The county of Notts in sixth place took only five points from the last six games, winning only one of those (D2 L3).
AFC Wimbledon, third, won only two of the last eight (D3 L3), collecting nine points at that time.
Port Vale has lost the opportunity to move to the automatic promotion points defeat at home in Barrow Tuesday evening, in the sense that they have now recorded only two victories of seven (D3 L2).
Grimsby Town in seventh has eight points from the last six games (W2 D2 L2), while Crewe Alexandra has slipped to ninth after a race of four without victory (D3 L1).
Salford City contested the promotion after six consecutive victories brought the second to the beginning of January, but only two wins from the last 13 games (D5 L6) left them six points at the drift of the first seven to the tenth, even if with a game in hand.
Apart from Bradford, who also had a loser mini-blip for Gillingham and cross before Thrashing Colchester 4-1They were the Us that had been in the best shape before that strong defeat.
The embedded race of 13 colors of Colchester, which included five consecutive victories, ended in Valley Parade on Saturday, but they are still only a point outside the play -off points.
