PHIL Parkinson surveyed City’s first league loss for two months and claimed: “We should have won it.”

Walsall ended a ten-match unbeaten with a 2-1 victory as the Bantams slipped to ninth. But Parkinson felt his side had deserved far more.

Lee Evans’s volley cancelled out Tom Bradshaw’s opener, the first goal City had let in for 678 minutes, but Milan Lalkovic clinched it for the Saddlers.

Parkinson said: “I thought we started slowly. We knew they would keep the ball and have periods of possession in the middle of the pitch.

“But I just felt we gave the ball away too cheaply and didn’t have enough quality in that opening period.

“They got a fluky goal and then we settled down and played.

“We had a few good chances first half, restricting them to that one effort, and then dominated the second.

“They weren’t really in the game. We overran them in all areas of the pitch and deserved not just a draw but deserved to win.

“Their keeper has had a lot to do and Ben (Williams) has hardly had a shot to save.”