This was a cracking performance by the Saddlers against a decent team pushing for a play-off spot. But Colchester were just brushed aside.
Mat Sadler struck his first senior goal in 222 appearances to help lift Walsall out of the drop zone.
U's keeper Ben Williams palmed a corner from Alex
Nicholls straight to former Birmingham City star Sadler and the full back buried a ten yard drive
one minute before the break.
Argentine striker Emmanuel Ledesma had pulled the home side level with a twenty yard free-kick in the 38th minute.
And Substitute George Bowerman sealed
the win by nodding home an Nicholls cross from six yards in the 74th minute.
Midfielder Andy Wordsworth had given
Colchester the lead in the eleventh minute when he fired in his 12th goal of
the campaign from twenty yards. But Wordsworth's goal only seemed to stir the home side into action.
Sadler had been left with his head in his hands before his goal after Williams saved at his feet from ten yards and when central defender Manny Smith beat the keeper, his bullet header came back off the bar.
The star of the show though was Ledesma who rejoined the club for his second spell only a couple of weeks ago. The striker linked up well with the midfield and everything good about the Saddlers last night seemed to go through him.
At the end of last season
Ledesma returned to Argentina after failing to settle in the West Midlands, but last night he looked right at home!
My clipping from this morning's paper
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