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Promotion-chasing Walsall had to settle for a point as they extended Crawley's winless league run to six matches.

As well as keeping a third straight clean sheet, the Saddlers had the better of the chances.

Craig Westcarr's low left-foot shot was denied by Crawley keeper Paul Jones.

Having hit the post with an early second-half shot, Westcarr then blazed over from eight yards after being set up by Milan Lalkovic, while Andy Taylor's low shot was fumbled by Jones.

Crawley did have chances, striker Jamie Proctor heading Crawley Town 0-0 Walsallwide from a cross by Walsall old boy Mat Sadler, before fit-again Billy Clarke's low 20-yard shot was saved by Richard O'Donnell, who he had also tested in first-half stoppage time.

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Crawley Town manager Richie Barker told 91�ȱ� Sussex:

"I would say two teams that pretty much cancelled each other out and who play in similar ways and similar formations and probably had the same sort of information. The longer it went on, the more chance it was going to be 0-0.

"There were less mistakes out there and there was far better decision making, and we are going to take a lot of positives out of what we got today. The decision making in the final third was certainly better in the second half.

"In the second half I thought everyone got nervous, even the crowd and the players did as well, and towards the end you start to think is it worth taking the draw. And the draw extends the run a bit and we'll take the confidence from it."