David Dunn has welcomed the immediate impact of Yoan Zouma at a time fellow defender James Jones is facing an injury lay-off.
New signing Zouma made an eyecatching Barrow debut in Monday’s EFL Trophy tie against Leeds Under-21s.
The ex-Bolton man featured on the right of the defence with Jones having been ruled out after a nasty looking injury in Saturday’s defeat at Carlisle.
The extent of Jones’ problem is being established. Manager Dunn said: “He’s been for a scan [on Monday] so we’re just waiting for the results.
“It doesn’t look too great to be honest, it was a real awkward landing from the lad.
“But looking at Yoan [against Leeds], you can see the pace and physical attributes he possesses.
“He’s a little bit raw, but my God he can move.”
Dunn believes Zouma and fellow new boy Chris Taylor will raise the bar in the fight for first-team places at AFC.
“We want competition for places,” he said.
“Everywhere over the pitch now we’ve got good competition for places.
“And we’ll have hopefully a bit more competition for places at the back end of this week when we hopefully get a couple of forwards in.”
On Zouma and Taylor, Dunn added: “I thought they were very good. I think everyone can see the type of people and players I’m trying to bring in.”
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