We should be lot lower if you go off wages - Sadler

Walsall head coach Mat Sadler believes his promotion-chasing team is overachieving in League Two against clubs with "incredible resources".

The Saddlers have slipped out of the automatic promotion places in League Two after a run of two wins in seven league games.

A lacklustre goalless draw at home to Accrington on Saturday left them in fifth, but they are outside the top three on goal difference only, and remain within two points of second-placed Salford.

"It is very tight in there," Sadler told BBC Radio WM.

"We're competing with teams that have incredible resources in this division who can go and spend whatever they like, and we are in and amongst all of that.

"We'll continue to do things our own way. We'll work hard, we'll create a football club where development counts and it means something."

During the January transfer window, Walsall have signed midfielder Alex Pattison for an undisclosed fee, but had to look to the loan market to bring in Barnsley defender Kacper Lopata and Fulham forward Aaron Loupalo-Bi.

The Saddlers have lost a trio of loanees this month after Jid Okeke, Ryan Finnigan and Daniel Cox were recalled by their parent clubs.

However, they were buoyed by the news that leading scorer Daniel Kanu would be completing his season-long loan.

"We're doing well, we're having a good season, and if you go off what people pay other people then we shouldn't be," Sadler added.

"We should be a hell of a lot lower down the league than we are, but we've got our way of doing things and we've got a way that we organise our team and the hard work that we put in.

"That's bringing together the deficit between those things and we'll have to keep doing that - and we will."

Walsall host struggling Crawley Town on Tuesday (19:45 GMT).