Walsall moved 13 factors clear on the high of Sky Guess League Two by thrashing struggling Tranmere 5-1 to set a brand new membership report of eight successive league wins.
Jamille Matt’s double, plus targets from Ryan Stirk, Jamie Jellis and the division’s high scorer Nathan Lowe, earned Walsall victory with Connor Jennings replying for 10-man Rovers.
The leaders have been energetic from the beginning and Rovers goalkeeper Luke McGee saved well from Jellis’ volley earlier than Matt looped house a header from Taylor Allen’s cross to present Walsall a Fifteenth-minute lead.
Stirk rifled a positive strike into the underside nook from simply outdoors the realm within the twenty second minute.
Sam Finley’s Thirty eighth-minute dismissal for 2 fast bookings, the second a deliberate handball, briefly galvanised Rovers and Jennings drilled in from 20 yards a minute earlier than the break.
However Matt stabbed house from shut vary within the forty ninth minute and Jellis made it 4-1 within the 72nd minute with a near-post shot that deflected previous McGee.
On-loan Stoke striker Lowe took his tally to fifteen by changing Albert Adomah’s cross eight minutes later as Rovers, 4 factors off the drop zone, suffered a sixth immediately league defeat.
