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Wanderers should find out this week whether Kieran Lee will need an operation, which will rule him out for the rest of the season.
The midfielder has been managing pain in a heel injury which requires surgery but hoped to put the procedure off until the summer.
Lee played through the pain in the last couple of months but is now starting to pick up minor injuries associated with the bone spur issue in his heel and has now sought the opinion of a specialist.
Ian Evatt played Kieran Sadlier in the number 10 spot at Burton Albion on Tuesday night and felt the debutant was one of the few highlights of a frustrating night.
“I thought Sads did well,” he said. “I thought Kyle Dempsey was excellent, I thought he did really well in midfield in difficult conditions. Other than that, there wasn’t a lot of positives to take out of it. We just have to go again on Saturday.”
Evatt also gave a full debut to Jon Dadi Bodvarsson in what was a beefed up attack, designed to cope better with the conditions at the Pirelli Stadium.
“Jon is going to improve,” he said. “We had to go back to front a little bit quicker tonight because of the pitch and we picked our two big strikers and our biggest team to deal with their threats and also to be able to cope with our longer play and longer passing.
“We just didn’t win enough first contacts first half anywhere on the pitch really.
“We knew we were going to lose a game. Obviously, we are disappointed with the manner of it but it’s how we react now, and we must make sure we are ready to go on Saturday.”
Wanderers did have chances to get back into the game with Amadou Bakayoko and Bodvarsson going close in the first half.
Had his side pulled a goal back earlier than they did, Evatt reasoned that they could have gone on to claim a point.
“I think if we’d have scored earlier we could have built some momentum,” he said. “I do feel they were there for the taking. I think you could see that.
“I think there was only one team trying to do the right things but when you come up against that many set plays and they’re good at it and long throws are coming in from all over the place, it’s challenging to deal with and we didn’t deal with it well enough in the first half.”
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