The 31-year-old paid the price for two lacklustre displays in Dingwall and at Dens Park but he puts the team first.
At six foot and three inches, lofty Leon Balogun stands every bit as tall as titanic team-mate Connor Goldson .
It would have been easy for the big defender to skulk off and spend the warm-up limbering up with the rest of the subs. Instead, Goldson kept his head high as he joined with the starters while they went through their preparations, adding his pre-match pep talk on the pitch to the words of encouragement he’d already shared in the changing room.
Asked how he felt at the end of a taxing 90 minutes, Balogun said: "Tired! I mean, it got tough, especially when the sun came out - I would have preferred it to stay cloudy or rainy even if we've had a lot of that recently. I think it was eight or nine weeks since I have been playing, and then I was ill at the beginning of the week and only really got back on my feet on Thursday.
"Obviously you always want to play,” he said. “But for me, at this point, if you think back to October, and then think about the situation we are in now, you would have signed for it. Even if you look at the past week, we could have put ourselves in a better position, but for me it is about being strong as a team. Whether that is me, Ben Davies, Connor Goldson starting, for me at the end of the day it is about what we want to do for the club.
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