Billy happy to be a wide boy for Boro

BILLY DANIELS believes versatility is key if both him – and Nuneaton – are to thrive this season.

Daniels, a central midfield man by choice, got a start out-wide for the Boro last weekend.

The ex-Coventry City and Notts County man was playing instead of Daniel Nti on the right hand side of the midfield.

It is not a position that Daniels admits he knows – or even likes – as much as his usual centre of the pitch role, but it is one he is more than willing to play, if it helps him get on the pitch and the Boro get the points.

Daniels said: “I am not going to say no to starting wherever that may be, if it is out wide or in the middle I just want to play.

“You have to be versatile like that. We have not got the biggest squad here by any means so players have to be willing to play where they don’t want to, or don’t know that well. It is the only way we can keep going with the games coming like they are now.

“Yes it is an area I am not used to, but football is football and you make sure you do the best you can there – even if it means learning on the job a little.”

That learning on the job for Daniels included a lot of tracking back, something some might not link with a forward thinking position. He said: “It is hard work out there, people might think the middle of the pitch is harder, but out wide you are pressuring the fullback, chasing back with the winger, there is a lot of running.

“We tried it with me out there in the first half and then Jordan Nicholson in the second.

“The manager was willing to move us round to try and get the best for the team.

“I’m happy with that as long as I am playing and we are winning.”

Which is something Nuneaton could be doing a lot more in the weeks to come.

Daniels said: “I think we can go on a run now.

“We have got that first away win now which was much needed and we have shown that are a lot more solid at the back of late.

“We are playing much better and the confidence is high right now. We need to carry that on into the next few games and pull ourselves clear of danger.” DUCKENS Nazon has established himself as a firm favourite with Coventry City fans since his arrival at the Ricoh Arena.

The 23-year-old joined the Sky Blues on loan from high flying Wolves in August, wasting no time at all in making his mark with a string of impressive performances and wading in with some muchneeded goals.

Supporters quickly coined the phrase, ‘Feed the Duck and he will score,’ as the Haiti international took to the team like, well, a duck to water.

Three of his eight strikes to date have proved to be match winners, ensuring City have taken maximum points off Swindow Town, Crewe Alexandra and Lincoln City in League Two. His initial loan spell is due to end in January when City boss Mark Robins is hopeful of extending his temporary move from Molineux to help the club push on for promotion in the second half of the season.

Here we look at the striker’s story so far:

The Paris-born striker emerged through the French lower leagues, starting out in the youth system at Vannes before joining FC Lorient’s reserve team in 2013. Later that year, he joined French fourth-tier side US Roye.

After brief stints at Olympique Saint-Quentin and Stade Lavallois, he joined Kerala Blasters in the Indian Super League in September 2016, scoring two goals in 12 games. Three months later, he signed for English Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers, becoming part of their Under-23 team on a deal until the summer of 2019.

Nazon joined the Sky Blues on loan in early August, making his debut in the opening day 3-0 victory over Notts County. Although only on for the last four minutes, the striker immediately caught the eye with his bustling style on the break when he almost added to the scoreline.

He made his full debut at the Ricoh Arena a few days later against Tony Mowbray ’s Blackburn Rovers in the EFL Cup, scoring his first goal in the 3-1 defeat. He calls himself Le Prince on Twitter, is known as the ‘Duke’ by his team-mates and affectionately called the ‘Duck’ by the fans who regular post duck emogis on social media posts about him.

Robins broke Nazon in gently with a number of late appearances from the bench and the odd start before the young forward made his mark and raced to the top of City’s scoring charts with four goals in five games, starting with the opener in a 2-0 win over Carlisle United, a consolation strike in the 2-1 defeat at Cambridge United before grabbing the winners against Swindon and Crewe.

Although Nazon has made an undeniable impact on the Sky Blues, whether from the starting line-up or the bench, Robins believed there was more to come from the player in terms of work-rate and fitness in his first few months when he was adapting to the intensity of the English game and Robins’s preferred high energy style of play.

Nazon found himself in trouble with the manager after pulling his shirt off to celebrate his match winner against Lincoln City and immediately getting himself booked, taking his season’s tally to five yellow cards and rendering him suspended for the following match at Stevenage. Robins looked into his previous cards and discovered that most had been ‘avoidable’ rather than for bona fide fouls, and had a good chat with the player who was fined as a result.

Robins said: “In fairness he’s a good lad and I enjoy him around the training ground. He keeps me on my toes.”

Nazon’s goal against Boreham Wood in the FA Cup on Sunday – arguably his best game to date given that he scored the first and had a hand in the other two in a 3-0 win – took his tally to eight so far in all competitions, one ahead of Marc McNulty.

“He can be a live wire,” said Robins. “Sometimes he’s a player who, I suppose you’d say he’s mercurial. He’s one of those talents. He’s a good player, decent and powerful and he’s obviously scoring goals for us and I think he’s enjoying it.

“The key for him is enjoyment, getting a run in a team and then getting to know the club where he’s at because going somewhere else might not suit, I don’t know, but we’ll cross that bridge in a couple of weeks.

“He needs regular games. He plays games and then tires and then he’s on the bench and comes on, but whichever way it happens he generally has a say in the games.

“I would imagine he’s a striker that defenders hate playing against because he’s a good player and a threat.” “I want to score the maxi-