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Not much point in Baleba coming on in that situation. Moder needs the minutes to build his confidence in his body and match fitness, Baleba needs to work on his positional awareness and understanding of the movement of the other players in our team, especially when building from the back...

He disappeared for 18 months.

Seemed to be good most games and improving to me, had a massive setback so we don't know where he will be right now but he is technically very good, got played wide a lot under Potter, and he did ok, but he is not really a wide player in my opinion. Can take a long ball and play it on the floor...

Made the interception/challenge on the edge of the box for the first goal, for me a good sign that he is not going to be too affected by fear of further injury.

Roy Keane had the better part of his career after a year out with a knee ligament injury, the one Alf Inge Haaland got clattered for a year later Van Nistelroy went on to play for Man United and Real Madrid after doing his ACL and being out for a year at PSV. Andrew Crofts was playing better...