Tyrese Fornah is being tested as an emergency defender as his development continues on loan at Plymouth Argyle.
The 21-year-old Nottingham Forest prospect has spent the season in League One as he tries to propel himself into first team contention at the City Ground - and most of his 33 appearances have come in a holding midfield role under Ryan Lowe.
That is the first big box ticked for a player who needed experience having previously made just one substitute appearance for Forest.
But he was also utilised as a stand-in centre-back during a 1-0 win over AFC Wimbledon on Good Friday.
Fornah told PlymouthLive: “I like to think I can play in a few roles. I’m midfield at first but if the team needs me to play at the back I will do the job for the team and the gaffer.
“You just have to be intelligent, and try to read the game and see what it is telling you to do at that moment in time.
“That’s what I try to do, and luckily for me it worked.”
Fornah has clearly enjoyed his time on the south coast, where Plymouth are currently 14th in the table, eight points off the play-offs and 16 clear of the drop zone with seven games to play.
Fornah said: “I’m grateful to the club, grateful to everyone that works here, that they have given me the trust and believed in my ability.
“There are going to be times where things don’t work out for us as a team but they have always kept faith in me, so that’s the main thing as a young player.
“I have a coaching staff and a club that believes in my talent.”
When asked what he had learned, he said: “Just experience of men’s football, the things many people don’t see that go during the game.
“When you are playing men’s football, they will do anything to win.
“Coming out of (under) 23s football, you need to learn these things to get to the next level, which I like to think I have learned by now, so it has been really good for me.”
